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CGM accused of cover-up

25 Jan 2012

MASERU — China Garments Manufacturers (CGM), one of the biggest textile firms in Lesotho, is accused of covering up details of a factory accident that left one employee dead and two others injured in December. Thabo Sebapo, a 20-year-old man from Mapoteng, died while painting a water treatment tank at the factory on December 21. [...]

Civil servants get 3% pay increase

19 Jan 2012

By Teboho Molapo and Bongiwe Zihlangu MASERU — Finance Minister Timothy Thahane yesterday awarded a three percent salary increase to civil servants. But in an unprecedented move Thahane announced that high ranking government officials will not get a salary increase this year. Presenting his M13.7 billion budget, Thahane said senior civil servants who will not [...]

Top judge’s stained past exposed

12 Jan 2012

MASERU — Justice John Lyons, an Australian judge seconded to Lesotho by the Commonwealth, has a controversial past. At his appointment to head Lesotho High Court’s Commercial Court in January 2010 Justice Lyons was described as a commercial law expert of impeccable reputation who had served with distinction in The Bahamas and Fiji. But what [...]

Youths ‘insult’ minister

5 Jan 2012

MASERU — A Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth from Likhoele constituency in Mafeteng district has landed herself in hot water for allegedly insulting and threatening Sports Minister ’Mathabiso Lepono. Puleng Mokhethi was arrested together with two other youths from Likhoele, Rorisang Ranchebe and Limpho Kabi for allegedly sending text messages insulting Lepono. The three [...]

Phoofolo sues ABC

28 Dec 2011

MASERU — Prominent local lawyer, Haae Phoofolo, is suing the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party for M750 000 for defamation of character. He has also filed a M500 000 suit against the party’s Hoohlo constituency branch chairman, Futho Hoohlo, who he accuses of making false allegations against him at a party meeting. Both cases were [...]

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‘My Thabo is gone for good’

MASERU — Hearing the news of your child’s death is every parent’s nightmare. For ’Masekake Sebapo the dreaded news came on the night of December 21 when she heard that Thabo, 20, her only son, had died in a factory accident. After Thabo had landed a job at the China Garments Manufacturers (CGM) ’Masekake hoped [...]

25 Jan 2012 | 5 comments

Please GO!

I T is now as clear as a goat’s behind that when it comes to our senior national football team we are perpetual failures. On Sunday Likuena crashed out of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers after a draw with São Tomé and Príncipe, a little known country with a population of 176 000. [...]

25 Jan 2012 | 20 comments

Fireworks expected at LCD special conference

MASERU — The ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) will tomorrow finally hold a special conference to decide the fate of its national executive committee amid signs the party’s two warring factions were closing ranks to project an image of unity ahead of the indaba. The conference, which has been the subject of fierce litigation [...]

25 Jan 2012 | 9 comments

Angry mob attacks businessman

MASERU — A businessman had to run for his life on Sunday after some villagers from Koalabata pelted his house with stones because they suspected he was responsible for the gruesome murder of a 13-year-old old boy. The villagers suspect that the businessman is linked to the murder of Moholobela Seetsa whose mutilated body was [...]

25 Jan 2012 | 13 comments

ABC official sues party after being barred from elections

MASERU – The chairman of the opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC), Sello Machakela, is suing his own party after it barred him from contesting this year’s general election. Machakela, who was elected to parliament under the proportional representation system in 2007, wants to represent the ABC in Malimong constituency in Teyateyaneng. The MP filed an [...]

25 Jan 2012 | 8 comments

Court rules in Mahlakeng’s favour

MASERU — The Court of Appeal on Monday ruled that the Basotho Congress Party and the Basutoland Congress Party are one and the same entity ending a month-old row over the name of the party. The judgment means Thulo Mahlakeng remains the legitimate and only leader of the BCP which had been torn by bitter [...]

25 Jan 2012 | 0 comments

ABC endorses 33 candidates

MASERU — The main opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) has endorsed primary election results for National Assembly candidates in 33 of the country’s 80 constituencies. Results from the remaining 47 constituencies are yet to be approved owing to delays and queries from some losing candidates. The ABC, formed in October 2006 to challenge the ruling [...]

25 Jan 2012 | 2 comments

SA firm accused of sidelining locals

MASERU — Unemployed construction workers have accused a top South African construction company of hiring foreigners while sideling locals to work at the new Maseru Mall site. The new mall is being built near the Pope John Paul II monument behind the police training college in Maseru by Group 5. The desperate job seekers told [...]

25 Jan 2012 | 28 comments

Fight over dead body

MASERU — A family dispute over who should bury a Mohale’s Hoek businessman spilled into the High Court this week. As the row rages the body of Phoka Nts’eno, from Ha Thaba-Bosiu, who died on January 2, lies at the Lesotho Funeral Services mortuary awaiting the court’s decision. His first wife, ‘Mathato Nts’eno, died in [...]

25 Jan 2012 | 6 comments
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