Archive for May, 2010

Matlama cap glamorous season

  MASERU — The just-ended Vodacom Premier League season saw highs and lows, goals and misses. It also saw the return to local football of prodigies Dlomo Monapathi, Motlalepula Mofolo and Tefo Maipato who went on to shine for Matlama, Lioli and Bantu respectively. Living legend Lebajoa Mphongoa also returned for Nyenye Rovers albeit in [...]

27 May 2010 | 1 comment

Thabane fumes

MASERU — All Basotho Convention (ABC) party leader Thomas Thabane (pictured) says last Saturday’s three by-elections in Hololo, Mpharane and Sebapala were not “free and fair”. The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) won by a landslide in the by-elections that were characterised by low voter turnout. A bitter Thabane alleges that a day before the [...]

27 May 2010 | 13 comments

PFD leader quits parliament

MASERU — The leader of the opposition Popular Front for Democracy (PFD) party, Lekhetho Rakuoane, last Friday quit parliament to focus on party business ahead of the 2012 general elections. Rakuoane has been an MP since 2002. He retained his parliamentary seat under the proportional representation (PR) system in 2007. Rakuoane will be replaced in [...]

27 May 2010 | 3 comments

Court ruling shocks Law Society

MASERU — The Law Society of Lesotho says it is surprised the High Court has dismissed its application to have the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Leaba Thetsane stripped of the title of King’s Counsel (KC) bestowed on him by the king last year. The society said it was “strange” that the court had dismissed [...]

27 May 2010 | 3 comments

Civic group blasts electoral body

MASERU — A local pro-democracy civic group has accused the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) of failing to educate its polling officers and party agents about their role ahead of last weekend’s by-elections. The Lesotho Council of NGOs (LCN) said the failure by the IEC to educate its officers had resulted in chaotic scenes at polling [...]

27 May 2010 | 0 comments

Leribe cop shoots wife during dispute

MASERU — A 31-year-old police officer from Leribe allegedly shot and killed his 28-year-old wife last week following a domestic dispute, police have said. Police spokesperson Masupha Masupha said the police officer who is based in Leribe handed himself to the police after fatally shooting his wife. “He handed himself to the police on May [...]

27 May 2010 | 0 comments

Voter apathy hits opposition hard

MASERU — On the day the people of Sebapala, Mpharane and Hololo were expected to cast their ballots in droves they largely stayed at home. The result was a landslide victory for the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) in elections that were marked by low voter turnout. The numbers vividly tell the story. Only [...]

27 May 2010 | 3 comments

Why LCD still holds sway

MASERU — Eleven star rallies in six months — that’s how aggressively the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party had campaigned in the by-elections in Hololo, Mpharane and Sebapala. On the campaign trail that began last December ABC leader Tom Thabane visited Hololo five times and was in Mpharane four times. He went to Sebapala twice. [...]

27 May 2010 | 30 comments

FNB gives out World Cup tickets

MASERU — Eleven lucky First National Bank (FNB) account holders have won double tickets to watch a World Cup match in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on June 20. The lucky customers on Monday walked away with the tickets worth M1 200 each and will have the honour of watching the Slovakia versus Paraguay match in Bloemfontein. [...]

27 May 2010 | 0 comments

‘High production will boost Sacu revenue for Lesotho’

MASERU — Lesotho will have to increase its production capacity significantly if it wants to boost its share of Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) revenue, a senior government official has said. Motena Ts`olo, the chief executive of economic policy in the Ministry of Finance, told the Lesotho Times that under the terms of the new [...]

27 May 2010 | 3 comments
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