Archive for November, 2010

Rioting students shot

Ntsebeng Motsoeli and Nat Molomo MASERU — Police shot and injured seven students during violent protests at Limkokwing University on Monday. Two guards from Security Lesotho were also shot during clashes between the police and the striking students. A police officer was also injured after the angry students allegedly hit him with stones. The police [...]

25 Nov 2010 | 27 comments

Court rejects ex-MKM boss’ plea

MASERU — Acting High Court Judge John Musi yesterday shot down a bid by a former manager of MKM to be enjoined in an application in which the Central Bank of Lesotho is seeking to liquidate the troubled company. Tseliso Manyeli, who was once MKM’s corporate secretary, had together with nine others, who were not [...]

25 Nov 2010 | 14 comments

Mosisili admits LCD infighting

MASERU — Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) leader Pakalitha Mosisili last weekend publicly admitted for the first time that his party is ravaged by factional fights. Prime Minister Mosisili made the admission while addressing an emotionally charged LCD leadership conference on Saturday night at ‘Manthabiseng Convention Centre. Mosisili told delegates that it was sad that [...]

25 Nov 2010 | 10 comments

. . . as party calls special indaba over petitions

MASERU — An emotionally charged Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) leadership conference agreed on Sunday to convene a special conference to decide the fate of the party’s national executive committee. That special conference, the delegates agreed, will decide how the party should react to 26 petitions from the constituencies calling for the dissolution of the [...]

25 Nov 2010 | 3 comments

Infighting will not affect LCD at polls: analysts

MASERU — The current infighting within the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) does not pose a threat to the party’s grip on power with the party likely to close ranks ahead of polls in 2012, analysts have said. Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili, who is the leader of the LCD, publicly admitted last weekend that [...]

25 Nov 2010 | 3 comments

Security guards threaten industrial action

MASERU — BB Alert Security Guards have threatened to down tools this week to press management to fire the company’s human resources manager, Mahlelehlele Mahloane, whom they accused of delaying their monthly salaries. BB Security Guards is Lesotho’s biggest security company and employs about 700 people. The strike could paralyse security operations at most companies [...]

25 Nov 2010 | 0 comments

LPCM threatens demo

Lerato Matheka MASERU — The Lesotho People’s Charter Movement (LPCM), a group advocating free movement between South Africa and Lesotho, says it will soon take to the streets if the Lesotho government does not respond to its demands. In May this year, the LPCM petitioned the government to allow Basotho to travel to South Africa [...]

25 Nov 2010 | 2 comments

Ex-police boss escapes jail term

MASERU — Motsotuoa Ntaote, the former deputy police commissioner convicted of fraud, will sleep well this week. That’s because he is not going to jail despite having been convicted of defrauding the government of M12 387. Acting High Court Judge Gabriel Mofolo this week handed Ntaote a wholly suspended sentence of six months imprisonment or [...]

25 Nov 2010 | 0 comments

Mafeteng herd boys burn church

MAFETENG — Hell hath no fury like two herd boys denied access to their preferred grazing land. Two herd boys, aged 17 and 18, were allegedly told to stop grazing their livestock in the church’s yard. They were incensed. The two then allegedly set fire to the Lesotho Evangelical Church (LEC) building. The church building [...]

25 Nov 2010 | 0 comments

Companies Bill: reversing the slump

IN last week’s issue of the Lesotho Times Mpeshe Selebalo reported that Lesotho had slumped in the World Bank’s Doing Business indicators. What he says is true, but it is not the whole story. The government of Lesotho has embarked on an ambitious programme to reform the admittedly lengthy procedures associated with starting a business. [...]

25 Nov 2010 | 1 comment
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