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The scourge of illegal guns

MASERU — They arrived at Tiping a village in Thaba-Tseka on horseback on Thursday, armed to the teeth. The six men said they were looking for a man who had assaulted one of their own sometime back. Now they wanted nothing but revenge. Police spokesman Masupha Masupha told the Lesotho Times this week that the [...]

11 Aug 2010 | 0 comments

Fighting from within

MASERU — Tselane, like most other girls her age, was once a strong-willed teenager. She would defiantly stand her ground and say no to premarital sex. But that fierce resistance melted and she crossed the red line. Ever since that day, she has regretted her decision to give up her virginity. How could she continue [...]

7 Jul 2010 | 2 comments

Crackdown on illegal clinics looms

MASERU — Three women sit outside a run-down “surgery” in Thibella, a poor working-class suburb notorious for running illegal shebeens, awaiting their turn to get into the “consultation room”. They are holding grey medical booklets in which the nurses scribble some notes for the patients. The women are engaged in small talk as they await [...]

23 Jun 2010 | 0 comments

Aids message hits brickwall

MASERU — Bora, a strong, athletic taxi driver in his late 30s, is not shy to talk about his sexual exploits. He says with a straight face that he has lost count of the number of women he has bedded. He says he is aware that he is putting himself at risk of contracting HIV, [...]

7 Apr 2010 | 1 comment

The curse of Mohale Dam

MOHALE — When news trickled in that the government was going to build a new multibillion-dollar dam in Mohale, the people were thrilled. Finally, they thought, they were going to see real change in their routine and dull lives. And indeed when the project roared into life in June 1998 things really began to improve [...]

19 Mar 2010 | 0 comments

Tap water gives new life to villagers

MAFETENG — While some rural parts of the country are in the grip of hunger some villagers in Ha-Paki and Ha-Shale in Mafeteng have a completely different story to tell. For these villagers in Mafeteng, about 80 kilometres south of the capital Maseru, hunger and poverty are now a thing of the past, thanks to [...]

4 Mar 2010 | Comments Off

World Cup: Will Lesotho gain?

MASERU — In exactly 147 days the World Cup football tournament will burst into life in neighbouring South Africa. The World Cup, arguably the biggest sporting event on planet earth after the Olympics, is expected to be watched by billions of people. The tournament which will run from 11 June to 11 July is expected [...]

13 Jan 2010 | 12 comments

Aids literacy low among youth

THABA-TSEKA — At 26 years, Sechaba Mohlohlo, was disturbingly ignorant about the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Mohlohlo dismissed out of hand any suggestion HIV was spread through unprotected sex arguing that he did not see how this “concept” could ever be possible.   He thought the disease was a result of some witchcraft and even blamed [...]

2 Dec 2009 | 2 comments

Global recession begins to bite

MASERU — Her demise started early last year when she noticed that her profits were shrinking. For the first time this clothing boutique that Ntaoleng Setho (not her real name) had run in downtown Maseru was showing signs of stress. For years the little shop had been her source of livelihood, but now it was [...]

26 Nov 2009 | 1 comment

Facing an unseen enemy

THABA-TSEKA — His hair is fluffy and his lips are blistered. He leans heavily on his walking stick for support. His clothes — a pair of yellow track-pants and a blue jersey which he covers with a tattered grey blanket — hang onto his skeletal frame. The young man, Thabo Motlohi from Ha-Makunyapane Village in [...]

18 Nov 2009 | 2 comments
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