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MASERU – THE police are investigating the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Advocate Hlalefang Motinyane, for alleged fraud and abuse of office. thepost can reveal that the investigation, launched this week, is based on the allegation that Advocate Motinyane attempted to get the government to pay the M600 000 legal bill for a Constitutional case she filed mid-last year to block Prime Minister Sam Matekane’s move to impeach her. The allegation was first revealed in the suspension letter that Matekane wrote to Advocate Motinyane on June 24. The prime minister’s letter alleged that Advocate Motinyane wrote to the principal secretary…

MASERU – LONG knives are out for Home Affairs Minister Lebona Lephema. The Revolution for Prosperity (RFP)’s Peka constituency committee wants Prime Minister Sam Matekane to rebuke Lephema for aggressively touting for his bid to be elected the party’s deputy leader. In a letter to the RFP secretary general, Nthati Moorosi, last week, the committee accused Lephema of holding a meeting with some members to garner their support to replace Deputy Prime Minister Nthomeng Majara as deputy party leader. Lephema, who is arguably the most powerful minister and founder of the RFP, is alleged to be angling for the deputy…

MASERU – A ruling Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) MP for Hlotse constituency, Rethabile Nalane, could find himself in trouble after he allegedly assaulted the family of a party activist Tankiso Sephooko. The attack happened last Friday at Sephooko’s home in Tšifa-li-mali. Sephooko, who is a Lesotho Correctional Service (LCS) officer, said the attack may have been sparked by political tensions within the RFP. He said his wife, who is a deputy secretary of the Hlotse RFP Constituency Committee, visited the party’s headquarters in Maseru last week to request a constituency stamp. “I had accompanied her together with other constituency committee…

MASERU – THE Ministry of Energy allegedly pushed for the construction of the M1 billion Ramarothole Solar Power Project in Mafeteng without an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). And now the government is paying a huge price for that mistake. The ministry is requesting an additional M26 million from the government to repair parts of the solar station damaged because it was constructed on dongas that keep expanding due to erosion. This was revealed by the Ministry of Finance’s Public Debt Manager, Khotso Moleleki, who told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that his office’s pleas for the EIA to be done…

MASERU – THE Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) boss, Ntsie Maphathe, threw his juniors under the bus on Monday saying they had misled him over the procurement of a M1.2 million cable bought from a tendering company. Maphathe conceded before the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the company bought the cables from HDM Catering Company based in South Africa without following procurement procedures. He told the PAC that he first realised that he had been misinformed when the committee visited the LEC headquarters and discovered the controversial cable. The cable was stored unused alongside nine incompatible transformers valued at over…

MASERU – THE police have revoked a gun licence for Democratic Congress (DC) MP, Mokherane Tsatsanyane, after he allegedly threatened to shoot a business rival. Tsatsanyane and his brother Moorosi allegedly assaulted and threatened to shoot Tšepang Phangoa in March this year. The Tsatsanyane brothers are locked in a bitter wrangle with Phangoa over the control of a property belonging to a company owned by the Lesotho Bus and Taxi Operators Association (LBTOA). Phangoa is a director in the company. In a letter dated June 27, 2025, Police Commissioner Borotho Matsoso told Tsatsanyane that he had confessed to making the…

MASERU – DETAINED leader of the Basotho Covenant Movement (BCM) party, Dr Tšepo Lipholo, says he is not behind a voice clip on social media recruiting people into a militia to fight for Lesotho’s land. Instead, Dr Lipholo has accused the police of tampering with his phone after they seized it from him last week to make it appear as if he is the one who is communicating with his followers. Lipholo made these allegations in a High Court petition seeking release on bail this week. “Police now continue to misuse and abuse your petitioner’s cellphone by forging some voice…

MASERU – JUSTICE Tšeliso Monapathi and Justice Keketso Moahloli left the High Court 191 undelivered judgements. Justice Monapathi had 107 pending judgements when he retired in August last year after 30 years on the bench. Justice Moahloli had not delivered 84 judgements when he abruptly resigned in October last year after a decade on the bench. Justice Moahloli resigned after Chief Justice Sakoane Sakoane advised the King to appoint a tribunal for his impeachment for his failure to deliver judgements. Justice Monapathi’s pending judgements include 37 civil trials, 58 civil applications and two civil appeals. There are also two criminal…

BUTHA-BUTHE – THE Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) last Saturday welcomed the arrival of a Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) that is expected to speed up work at the Polihali project. The cutting-edge equipment marks a significant step in the progress of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) Phase II, a vital infrastructural initiative aimed at enhancing water supply and energy generation for both Lesotho and South Africa. The LHDA Acting Chief Executive Officer, Reentseng Molapo, said the TBM is a marvel of modern engineering, which is designed to excavate and build tunnels with unprecedented speed and precision. “It will be…

MASERU – SECTION 2, an advocacy group that seeks to defend the Constitution, has criticised the government’s decision this week to declare unemployment a state of disaster calling the move “legally untenable”. Acting Prime Minister Justice Nthomeng Majara issued the gazette on Monday declaring youth unemployment and the widespread job losses in Lesotho a state of national disaster. The gazette says the declaration was being made in line with Section 3 of the Disaster Management Act of 1977. It states that the Deputy Prime Minister was declaring a state of disaster on the socio-economic effects of high rates of youth…