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Tough love will reduce road carnage

IT seems that road accidents and deaths have now become the new face of the annual graduation season as shown by the story you carried last week. It was reported that at least 35 road accidents happened during the graduation weekend two weeks ago. Every year we read about cars involved in serious road accidents [...]

8 Oct 2009 | 0 comments

Violent husband fined

MASERU – A Maseru man, Mohau Matlaeea, was this week slapped with a five-year jail term or a fine of M5 000 for assaulting his wife. Half the sentence was suspended for two years on condition that Matlaeea did not commit a similar offence. The court was told that Matlaeea violently assaulted his wife with a [...]

30 Mar 2009 | 1 comment

Vodacom, Vodafone launch partnership

MASERU –“One plus one equals three.” It sounds weird mathematically but that is precisely how Communications, Science and Technology Minister Mothetjoa Metsing described the partnership between Vodacom Lesotho and Vodafone which was launched last Thursday. “The partnership will bring tremendous synergic value to the two companies,” said Metsing during the official launch. The marketing partnership [...]

30 Mar 2009 | 0 comments

Bed shortage hits Queen II

MASERU – Lesotho’s only national hospital, Queen Elizabeth II, is overwhelmed by influx of patients and is battling to provide enough beds for the sick. The magnitude of the crisis is clearly shown in the maternity ward where there is a serious shortage of bedding. The Lesotho Times witnessed two women and their newly-born babies [...]

30 Mar 2009 | 1 comment

Law society calls for code of conduct for judges

MASERU – Law Society of Lesotho president, Advocate Zwelakhe Mda, says the absence of a code of conduct for judges is impacting negatively on the administration of justice in the country. Advocate Mda made the remarks while addressing the Court of Appeal during the official opening of its first session in Maseru on Monday. “We [...]

30 Mar 2009 | 0 comments

Return of fugitives hailed

MASERU – The Minister of Communications, Science and Technology Mothetjoa Metsing has hailed the return of the four fugitives who were wanted in Lesotho for alleged treason charges. The fugitives Khotso Lebakeng, Thabo Thantsi, Mokherane Tsatsanyane and Thabo Motlomelo who fled to South Africa two years ago returned to Lesotho early this month. They are [...]

30 Mar 2009 | 0 comments

Chicken abattoir fails to pay farmers

MASERU-About 228 farmers are stranded after a locally abattoir failed to pay them for the chickens they have supplied for the past three years. Thuathe Chicken Abattoir based Ha Hoohlo owes a staggering M350 755 to the farmers who are mostly based in Maseru but because the business had changed hands over the past three [...]

30 Mar 2009 | 0 comments

Bid to compel MPs to declare assets

MASERU – A group of opposition legislators is planning to push the parliament to compel MPs and other public office holders to declare their assets before taking office. The MPs want the parliament to compel all legislators and senior government officials to declare their assets before they come into office. The declaration will include all [...]

30 Mar 2009 | 0 comments

I raped and killed using ‘muti’, says man

MASERU – A 27-year-old man has owned up to murder, rape and housebreaking cases the police have been battling to crack for the past two years. Mongali Maliehe was not even on the police’s wanted list when he walked into Lithoteng Police Station last week to confess criminal activities he blamed on mystical powers. Maliehe [...]

30 Mar 2009 | 0 comments

Limkokwing University students go on strike

MASERU – Students at Limkokwing University went on strike on Monday to protest against the recruitment of ‘under-qualified’ lecturers by the institution. The students said they were not happy that some lecturers at the university only held first degrees raising fears that they were not qualified enough to hold their teaching posts. The students said [...]

16 Mar 2009 | 1 comment
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