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Dairy farmers speak with one voice
MASERU – FOR the first time in many years Lesotho dairy farmers are speaking with one voice. Yesterday farmers from nine districts elected a national committee that will help them fight
Three students off to the US
MASERU – THREE students left Lesotho to further their studies in the United States last Friday, thanks to a sponsorship deal from Higherlife Foundation. The three students, Teboho Motselekatse, Lerato Takana
Why dialogue was postponed
MASERU – JUSTICE Minister, Lebohang Hlaele, says the government had to postpone the political leaders’ dialogue on reforms after the opposition, cultural and business groups demanded to be part of the
Muckraker: The education of Maliehe
YOU cannot teach new tricks to an old dog. So they say. And that is quite true especially for dogs. But old people do learn new tricks. There are old
The ‘demons’ hurting little kids
MASERU – SHE was only 10-years-old in 2002 when her aunt’s male friend, a trusted policeman, sexually abused her. Today, 14 years later and now a human rights lawyer, she still
‘He fought the good fight’
MASERU – Before and after independence, politics in Lesotho has always been a treacherous, and often lethal, terrain. But Moeletsi Api is one man who weathered it all. Api died on
Drama at Thabane rally
MASERU – AN All Basotho Convention (ABC) rally in ’Makhoroana constituency last Sunday almost descended into violence in yet another clear indication that all is not well within the rank and
How politicians got ‘suspect’ off the hook
MASERU – POLITICIANS leaned on Police Commissioner Holomo Molibeli to release a man who had been arrested for alleged malicious damage to property and making threats at the Kao Mine. Tseko
Dog-bite victim sues Catholic cleric
MASERU – Maisane Phafa says he had to be amputated after being bitten by dogs owned by a Roman Catholic priest, Reverend Lithebe Tjokosela. Now he is suing the cleric and
Litjobo sues Ramatšella for M6 million
MASERU – THE spokesman for the Alliance of Democrats (AD), Thuso Litjobo, is suing Bokang Ramatšella, the Lesotho People’s Congress (LPC) secretary general, for M6 million for defamation. Litjobo is claiming
