Archive for January, 2010

Heavy rains flood Maseru roads, shops

MASERU — The heavy rains that pounded Maseru on Monday left roads and some shops in the city flooded. Some shops at LNDC Centre were flooded. As some people were taking shelter from the pouring rains some shop assistants and owners were busy battling to scoop out flood water from their shops. Monday’s biggest scare, [...]

27 Jan 2010 | 9 comments

BNP fight gets ugly

MASERU — Basotho National Party (BNP) members who were fired from the party last week have said their expulsion was null and void insisting they were still members of the party despite the national executive committee’s decision. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday the seven members alleged that their expulsion was part of the [...]

27 Jan 2010 | 3 comments

‘Lekhanya annointed Makoa’

MASERU — Basotho National Party (BNP) leader Metsing Lekhanya suggested as far back as 2007 that Professor Kopano Makoa could succeed him, an expelled party official has said. Mothobi Moholi who was the BNP’s deputy secretary general from 2005 to 2007 and was part of the group of seven party members who were expelled last [...]

27 Jan 2010 | 3 comments

Corrupt cop escapes jail

MASERU — A former police superintendent escaped jail yesterday after he was slapped with a suspended term for soliciting a M1 000 bribe. Keletso Ramoeletsi, 56, was arrested and charged with soliciting a bribe from one Mats’eliso Sets’abi in 2006 following a police trap. Sets’abi was wanted by the police in connection with the theft [...]

27 Jan 2010 | 6 comments

Top soldier snubs inquest

MASERU — A senior army officer who was on duty on the night of the April 22 attacks on Makoanyane military base and the prime minister’s residence has refused to appear before the commission of inquiry set up to investigate the attacks. Sergeant Motsoto was the senior officer on duty and was in charge of [...]

27 Jan 2010 | 4 comments

COSC results out, pass rate slightly down

MASERU — The Ministry of Education and Training will release the 2009 Cambridge Overseas School Certificate (COSC) results today. Acting education minister Ralechate ‘Mokose told a press conference yesterday that candidates would start getting their results at their respective centres this morning. ‘Mokose said the 2009 pass rate was 0.6 percent lower than last year. [...]

27 Jan 2010 | 6 comments

Senkatana set to elect new leadership

MASERU — Breakaway political party, Senkatana, will hold its first general conference to elect a substantive leadership in Maseru next Friday. Senkatana broke away from the main opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) party led by Thomas Thabane in December 2008. The party’s leader, Lehlohonolo Ts’ehlana, was kicked out of the ABC for alleged insubordination after [...]

27 Jan 2010 | 0 comments

Stay in the barracks

LESOTHO Defence Force (LDF) commander Lieutenant General Thuso Motanyane last week told a commission set up to probe last April’s attacks on the prime minister that there were still elements within the army that were bent on subverting the constitutional order. The statement did not come as a surprise to us. The commission is investigating [...]

27 Jan 2010 | 0 comments

Soccer stadiums a ticking timebomb

MASERU — It was supposed to be the rebirth of Lesotho football, but 34 minutes into the second half of the Matlama versus Lioli encounter on Sunday gunshots were fired and the game was stopped. All hell broke loose among supporters and the running battles spilled onto the nearby streets. In the end two people [...]

27 Jan 2010 | 2 comments

These journos need our prayers

WHEN the cat is away the mice play. And they indeed have been playing hard at some weekly papers. Imagine what I saw this week when I thought I had done a decent job over the past year of whipping mediocre and overweening journalists into line. My eyes almost popped out of their sockets as [...]

27 Jan 2010 | 4 comments
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