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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 | 3 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 | 3 comments

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

Livestock owners live in terror

NAZARETH — Once a well-known cattle breeder, 72-year-old Morena-Kemang Nkhahle now only has his fingers to count. Scores of Nkhahle’s cattle and sheep have been stolen over the years and despite having identified the perpetrators, none of the livestock has been recovered. He goes through a bundle of old documents and a worn-out notebook, where [...]

11 Nov 2009 | 0 comments

Hell on earth for factory workers

MASERU — When Nthato Ralele found a job as a tailor she thought her worries were finally over. But four years down the line, Ralele is a broken woman. Ralele, a tailor at one of the garment factories in Maseru, looks miserable. Life has not turned out the way she had thought. She says the [...]

4 Nov 2009 | 1 comment

Baby dumping on the rise

MASERU — Twenty-two-year-old Nthabiseng (not her real name) is a haunted woman. Earlier this month Nthabiseng was arrested and sentenced to two months in prison for dumping her newly-born baby in a pit latrine. She however escaped jail after she paid a M200 fine. But a month after that horrible day when she threw away [...]

29 Oct 2009 | 1 comment

Unemployment’s silent victims

MASERU — The hot spring sun is blazing. A group of young kids in Ha-Tsolo are busy with song and play. They have turned the open space next to their homes into a playground. But six-year-old Pusetso Ratsúpu and his siblings — Relebohile, four, and 22-month-old Ntsoaki — are not part of the fun. They [...]

22 Oct 2009 | 0 comments
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