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Give Majoro the space to breathe
Lesotho’s opposition parties are piling fresh pressure on the government to re-open Parliament in what observers say is a ploy to oust the new government led by Prime Minister Moeketsi
They must face the music
Elsewhere in this issue, we run a story of a local property company, J & M Properties, which is mired in a bitter dispute with the government over what it
Bitter lessons from Covid-19
IF there is anything that this Covid-19 pandemic has brutally exposed, it is the huge structural inequalities within our Lesotho society.Companies, which were already in distress pre-Covid-19 pandemic, are now
Restrictions must be strictly enforced
PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro last weekend announced new tighter restrictions in an effort to stem the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.Under the new restrictions, religious services, initiation schools, political rallies
Right demands at the wrong time
THE Ministry of Health has now confirmed that three people have so far died of Covid-19, a situation that once again shines the light on our deeply precarious situation as
Walk the talk
PRIME Minister Moeketsi Majoro and his Cabinet gave fresh oomph to an “old law” when they declared their personal assets to the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) this
Step up battle against Covid-19
LESOTHO recorded five more Covid-19 positive cases this week taking the total of positive cases to 17. Of these new cases, three individuals had recently travelled to South Africa while
Majoro must stand firm
Prime Minister Moeketsi Majoro finds himself battling a plethora of challenges that are threatening to torpedo his four-week old government.MPs from his All Basotho Convention (ABC) party who were overlooked
Reject MPs’ salary demands
Lesotho’s MPs are said to be pushing a 100 percent salaryincrease that will take their monthly salaries to a staggeringM75 000 per month. The story, which is being denied in
Khasipe must stand firm
Thabo Khasipe, who heads the National Covid-19 Secretariat (Nacosec), last week painted a grim picture of an institution under siege. At the centre of the many reported rows appears to