Archive for September, 2011

State funeral scandal

MASERU — The state funeral of the late assistant sports minister Lekhetho Phakisi gobbled more than M2.5 million but more than half of that amount cannot be accounted for. The Lesotho Times can reveal that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) this week launched a probe into what sources say could have been an elaborate scam [...]

29 Sep 2011 | 33 comments

Metsing must go, say LCD youths

MASERU — The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) youth league is reportedly seeking a police permit to march to Communications Minister Mothetja Metsing’s office as they ratchet up pressure on the minister to resign, the Lesotho Times heard this week. This follows raucous scenes witnessed at Moshoeshoe I International Airport on Tuesday when party youths [...]

29 Sep 2011 | 36 comments

Civil servants plundered public coffers: report

MASERU — The state-funded funeral of the assistant minister Lekhetho Phakisi in July 2007 seems to have provided a platform for some civil servants to plunder government coffers. The Celebrations Committee, which organised the ceremony, splurged a whopping M2.5 million on the funeral. Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee now wants the Celebrations Committee to account for [...]

29 Sep 2011 | 12 comments

Bashing ‘Makoerekoere’

M akoerekoere! You know a radio station has lost the plot when it allows its presenters to use such words. A fortnight ago PC FM, a radio station Scrutator respects, sank to those pathetic depths when it allowed two of its most overrated DJs to go on a Makoerekoere ‘lynching’ spree. DJ Bootz and DJ [...]

29 Sep 2011 | 41 comments

End nigh for Metsing: analysts

MASERU — The relentless pressure being exerted on Mothetjoa Metsing suggests that the end is nigh for the ruling Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party secretary general, analysts said this week. LCD youths on Tuesday openly urged Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili to fire Metsing from his post as communications minister. The youths waved placards and [...]

29 Sep 2011 | 14 comments

Web-based law reporting facility launched in Lesotho

MASERU — Lesotho on Tuesday launched an internet-based law reporting facility that will allow the judiciary to collect and publish legal information online. Speaking at the launch of the Lesotho Legal Information Institute (Lesotho LII) Chief Justice Mahapela Lehohla said the project will speed up the delivery of justice in the country. “This is an [...]

29 Sep 2011 | 4 comments

High Court awards M40 000 to taxi driver

MASERU — The High Court has awarded M40 000 in damages to a taxi driver who was suing the commissioner of police for unlawful arrest and detention. Sekhosana Kalaile was demanding M300 000 for unlawful arrest, unlawful detention and malicious prosecution. Kalaile was arrested by two police officers in Maputsoe in Leribe district on March [...]

29 Sep 2011 | 5 comments

Government to rationalise high school fees

MASERU — The government is rationalising school fees in all public secondary and high schools starting from January next year, Education Minister ’Mamphono Khaketla said on Monday. Khaketla told a press conference that the government had decided to rationalise fees to deal with the unco-ordinated manner schools were pegging their fees. This had resulted in [...]

29 Sep 2011 | 6 comments

Mosisili calls for Libya support

MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili says the United Nations must help Libyans set up an all-inclusive government instead of allowing a few countries with vested interests to take the lead in reconstructing the North African country. Addressing the UN General Assembly in Washington DC on Saturday, Mosisili condemned the sidelining of the African Union [...]

29 Sep 2011 | 0 comments

Minister wins back father’s estate

MASERU — Education Minister ’Mamphono Khaketla on Friday won back custody of her late father’s estate after the High Court ruled that agreements entered by her father relating to the property were null and void. Justice ’Maseshophe  Hlajoane said the court had found out that two transactions which were concluded by Benett Makalo Khaketla, in [...]

29 Sep 2011 | 0 comments
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