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Nikuv ready to spill the beans

MASERU — Nikuv International Projects, the Israeli company that was controversially awarded the ID tender last year, has agreed to testify against senior former and current government officials whom it is alleged to have bribed to get the multimillion maloti contract. Some of the Nikuv directors who fled Lesotho in March after their offices were [...]

22 May 2013 | 43 comments

Squabbles stalk LCD

MASERU — Two senior Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) officials who are part of a taskforce set up to investigate squabbles within the party were sent packing when they visited Mekaling constituency in Mohale’s Hoek last Tuesday. LCD deputy secretary general, Tšeliso Mokhosi, and proportional representation MP, Pashu Mochesane, were blocked from visiting Mekaling constituency [...]

16 May 2013 | 67 comments

Thabane sued

MASERU — Court of Appeal President Justice Michael Ramodibedi is expected to file a constitutional case tomorrow challenging Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s request for him to resign. By last night his lawyers were busy putting final touches to the lawsuit that will be the first of its kind in Lesotho and southern Africa. Justice Ramodibedi [...]

9 May 2013 | 83 comments

Thahane to be charged

MASERU — Water Affairs Minister Timothy Thahane is expected to be charged on Monday for corruption, fraud and abuse of office in connection with the block farming scandal.The charges will make Thahane the first incumbent minister to be indicted for corruption since the return of democracy in 1993. The charges are a culmination of an [...]

1 May 2013 | 90 comments

Why PS was suspended

MASERU — Principal Secretary of the Ministry of Communications, Nokhululeko Zaly, was suspended following a massive fallout over the awarding of a multimillion maloti tender, the Lesotho Times can reveal. Zaly who has been at the ministry for six months received her suspension letter from government secretary Motlatsi Ramafole on Monday. Ramafole said Zaly was [...]

25 Apr 2013 | 41 comments

Ntsie’s property to be auctioned

MASERU — It never rains but pours for Lephuthela Ntsie, the controversial cameraman who fled the country in March last year before the High Court could sentence him for two murders. Ntsie will soon be fighting Lesotho’s attempts to have him extradited from South Africa where he has been hiding until he was recently arrested. [...]

18 Apr 2013 | 64 comments

Finance PS raided

MASERU — The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) raided the home and office of the principal secretary in the Ministry of Finance in an ongoing investigation into the way the Identity Document (ID) tender was awarded last year. Mosito Khethisa was reportedly out of the country when the raid was conducted five weeks [...]

11 Apr 2013 | 41 comments

What Moosa owes

MASERU — Prominent businessman Osman Moosa has failed to pay the M100.3 million tax bill he owes to the Lesotho Revenue authority (LRA), the Lesotho Times can reveal. According to documents seen by this paper Moosa’s company, Selkol 1983 (Pty) Ltd, owes the LRA a whopping M100 377 696 in Value Added Tax (VAT). The [...]

4 Apr 2013 | 38 comments

Moleleki taken to High Court

MASERU — The fraud trial of Democratic Congress (DC) deputy leader, Monyane Moleleki, was yesterday moved from the Maseru Magistrates’ Court to the High Court. Chief Magistrate ’Matankiso Nthunya announced the decision when Moleleki and his co-accused appeared for remand. “I have been served with order by the DPP (Director of Public Prosecutions) that this [...]

28 Mar 2013 | 37 comments

Massive looting unearthed

MASERU — A vehicle hire company with strong links to Public Works Principal Secretary Lebohang Phooko and his wealthy relative, These Phooko, is accused of ripping off millions of maloti from the government. A study conducted by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation consultant Mahtab Zolghadri last June revealed that Avis Fleet Services has been [...]

20 Mar 2013 | 115 comments
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