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Curtain comes down on Morija

’Matšei Moloi MORIJA – The organisers of this year’s Telecom Econet Morija Arts and Cultural Festival have hailed the annual gala as a success despite a low attendance. The festival started last Wednesday and ended on Sunday. “We are surely pleased by this year’s festival,” Rethabile Chabana, the festival’s public relations officer, told the Weekender. [...]

8 Oct 2009 | 1 comment

‘No gender test necessary’

SCRUTATOR is worried sick if the editor of one weekly still has her tongue after her stupefying bootlicking antics. The kowtowing editorial that I stumbled upon in the paper might have dazed even the person it sought to defend. The obsequious tabloid wants all the media to apologise to Police Commissioner Letooane ‘Malejaka for simply [...]

8 Oct 2009 | 7 comments

Mosisili lashes out at Tsvangirai

MASERU – Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili yesterday lashed out at Morgan Tsvangirai accusing the Zimbabwe opposition leader of constantly shifting goal posts. Mosisili said Tsvangirai was “double-tongued and thick” which made it difficult for regional leaders to press for a solution to Zimbabwe’s nine-year crisis. Mosisili’s remarks came a day after Southern African Development Community [...]

30 Jan 2009 | 0 comments

LCD set for explosive conference

MASERU – The ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party is set for an explosive national conference this weekend amid fears that jostling for power between warring factions could split the party. Reports say the strife between the factions has intensified in the run-up to the three-day conference which begins tomorrow at Mathabiseng convention centre [...]

30 Jan 2009 | 0 comments

We hope African leaders were watching

On Tuesday Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States in an event that was watched by millions of people around the globe. In his forceful and well thought-out inaugural address Obama promised a new modus operandi to deal with the current challenges facing the US. As we watched [...]

22 Jan 2009 | 0 comments

King prorogues parliament

MASERU – King Letsie III prorogued parliament last week but no reasons were given for the move which observers say is quite unusual. The house will resume business on February 6. There is speculation in political circles that the move could be in preparation for the eventual dissolution of parliament. The speculation has been gathering [...]

22 Jan 2009 | 0 comments

Health minister says mother-to-child HIV infection rate still high

MASERU – The Minister of Health and Social Welfare Mphu Ramatlapeng says although there has been a general decline in HIV prevalence among pregnant women in Lesotho, the prevalence of mother-to-child infection remained high. A 2007 survey shows that the prevalence rate among pregnant women in Lesotho has declined from 28.9 percent in 2003, to [...]

1 Dec 2008 | 0 comments

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