Archive for September, 2011
Dairy farmers protest
MASERU — Dairy farmers have stopped selling milk to the Lesotho Dairy Products (LDP) company in protest over payment delays, the Lesotho Times has learnt. Sources within the LDP told this paper that the number of farmers who are selling to the company has dramatically fallen over the past three months in various milk collection [...]
29 Sep 2011 | 0 comments‘People with disabilities are getting a raw deal’
MASERU — The Lesotho National Federation of Organisations of the Disabled (LNFOD) says people with disabilities are getting a raw deal from the police and courts. Nkhasi Sefuthi, a human rights officer at LNFOD, yesterday told a workshop for police officers aimed at educating them on how to handle cases involving people with disabilities that [...]
29 Sep 2011 | 0 commentsStandard Bank tightens grip on African market
MASERU — Standard Bank this week said it had strengthened its grip on the African market after it opened its 500th branch in the Nigerian town of Ajao Estate in Osolo. The bank’s customers also ballooned to two and half million with three million active accounts in 16 countries across the continent. In a statement [...]
29 Sep 2011 | 0 commentsLesotho launches New Companies Act
MASERU — Trade and Industry Minister Dr Leketekete Ketso will today launch the New Companies Act that is meant to ease the doing of business in Lesotho. The New Companies Act will replace the Companies Act of 1967 which the government says is no longer responsive to the needs of the modern business community. In [...]
29 Sep 2011 | 0 commentsMaduma make great start
MASERU — Maduma are the surprise team of the season so far. After beating Bantu, Linare and Matlama in consecutive weeks the Khukhune side find themselves third on the Vodacom Premier League table. The strong and surprising start to the season sees them one point behind leaders LDF. Judging by their early season form last [...]
28 Sep 2011 | 2 commentsLefa technical director says local league not up to scratch
MASERU — Lefa technical director Seephephe Matete says Lesotho’s national team will continue to perform dismally unless something is done to improve the domestic league. In an interview with the Lesotho Times on Tuesday, Matete bemoaned the level of football which has seen Likuena fall to position 160 out of 207 countries on the latest [...]
28 Sep 2011 | 9 commentsC-Licence coaching clinic set for next month
MASERU — The Lesotho Football Association (Lefa) will next month hold a two-week Caf C Licensing coaching clinic for 40 premier league and A Division coaches. The course, which will run from October 3 to16, comes after the Confederation of African Football (Caf) demanded that all premier league coaches hold the C-Licence coaching qualification. The [...]
28 Sep 2011 | 0 commentsFootball for Hope Centre opened
MASERU — The fifth Football for Hope Centre in Africa was officially opened at Old Europa on Saturday marking a new era for football in Lesotho. The centre is one of 20 projects that are being set up around Africa by Fifa as part of the legacy of the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South [...]
28 Sep 2011 | 0 commentsBooing Metsing is not the way to go
IF the riotous scenes that we saw at Moshoeshoe I International Airport on Tuesday are anything to go by, then Mothetjoa Metsing’s days as the party’s secretary general are numbered. The writing is certainly on the wall for the affable communications minister. He appears cornered. This editorial is no elegy for Metsing. We hold no [...]
28 Sep 2011 | 1 commentTo a woman who never gives up
“I AM so inspired, I feel like I am flying,” declares Makhoase Motsatse. This is after her recent visit to Toronto, Canada, where she was one of 2 000 delegates who attended the International Confederation of Principals World Convention (www.icp2011.ca) which was held from August 15 to 18, 2011. “There were nine of us from [...]
28 Sep 2011 | 0 comments
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