Archive for April, 2012

Detective flees

MASERU — An investigator with the anti-corruption unit has fled the country following death threats, the Lesotho Times can reveal. Abiel Monare, an investigator with the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO), fled the country last Wednesday. He skipped the country around noon, with only a small bag, a blazer and his phones. Sources [...]

25 Apr 2012 | 58 comments

‘Detective fell out with boss’

MASERU — Months before he fled the country Abiel Monare had a nasty fallout with his immediate boss at the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO). Three weeks ago Monare allegedly told colleagues that his boss Thabiso Thibeli could be one of the people who wanted to eliminate him. He is also alleged to [...]

25 Apr 2012 | 47 comments

Just zip it

S OME years ago a Mosotho woman was lynched by a group of Basotho women in a shop owned by a South African company. The people’s reaction was as tragic as the incident. People said: “Lets burn all foreign-owned shops in Lesotho”. And indeed some foreign-owned shops were burnt and looted while their owners fled [...]

25 Apr 2012 | 21 comments

‘We will build monument for victims of 1974 massacre’

HLOTSE — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili  says his government will erect a monument in Leribe to mark 40 years of the massacre of Basotho Congress Party (BCP) cadres by the Basotho National Party (BNP) government in 1974. Addressing about 4 000 Democratic Congress (DC) supporters at a campaign rally in Hlotse on Sunday Mosisili said [...]

25 Apr 2012 | 42 comments

Massacre an old and tired story, says BNP

MASERU — The Basotho National Party (BNP) has rubbished claims by Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili that the party led a massacre of Basotho Congress Party (BCP) supporters in the Leribe district in 1974. Mosisili told a campaign rally last Sunday that his government will erect a monument in remembrance of BCP cadres who he said [...]

25 Apr 2012 | 27 comments

DC promises to solve passport problem

MASERU — Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili says the corruption that has dogged the Passport Services Department will be a thing of the past if his Democratic Congress (DC) party wins the May 26 election. Mosisili was speaking at a DC rally in Mohale’s Hoek on Saturday. The government in March awarded a multi-million dollar tender [...]

25 Apr 2012 | 61 comments

Ntsie vanishes

MASERU — Habofanoe Ntsie, the cameraman facing a possible death sentence for double murder, has vanished. Ntsie disappeared from the court on March 26 before Justice ’Maseforo Mahase had finished reading her judgment on a case in which he is charged for the murder of Habaka Mahao and Souru Masupha in 2004 at Lancer’s Gap [...]

25 Apr 2012 | 35 comments

Thieves break into DC offices

MASERU — Thieves broke into the Democratic Congress (DC) head offices in Maseru last Wednesday and stole M13 000 cash, the Lesotho Times heard this week. The party’s executive secretary, Tsie Sekoere, said he found the offices at Puma House broken into when he reported for work last Wednesday. The cash was kept in a [...]

25 Apr 2012 | 46 comments

BNP promises to boost income generating projects

MASERU — The Basotho National Party (BNP) on Sunday said it will use funds generated from the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) to support employment generating projects if it wins next month’s election. BNP leader, Thesele ‘Maseribane told about 500 supporters in Mahobong in Leribe, that they would create a Development Fund to alleviate poverty [...]

25 Apr 2012 | 9 comments

Man killed in row over initiation song

MASERU — A Berea man appeared before the High Court on Tuesday to answer a charge of murder. Tlhalefo Sarele, 30, is alleged to have killed Rantsane Letsielo after he allegedly tried to stop him from singing an initiation song at a traditional feast. The incident happened on December 1 last year at Ha-Tabola. High [...]

25 Apr 2012 | 9 comments
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