THE exit of Commissioner of Police Holomo Molibeli last Friday has been met with mixed reactions from Basotho with certain sections of society gleefully celebrating his departure. Prime Minister Samuel Matekane did not renew Molibeli’s contract despite his fervent pleas for a new term.
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Finance Minister Retšelisitsoe Matlanyane yesterday outlined her government’s ambitious plans to build a resilient economy for Lesotho. It is an impressive budget statement with lofty goals that would likely see an upturn in Lesotho’s economic fortunes, if implemented to the letter. But as we already know from previous budgets, it is the implementation of the …
ELSEWHERE in this issue we carry a damning report by the Ombudsman on Mohlomi Mental Hospital. The report paints a sad picture of “the systemic neglect of the mental health facility at a policy implementation level”. It says patients at Mohlomi were living in abject conditions that were not humane and were a violation of …
IN our last week’s issue of thepost, we reported on a story of how the Examinations Council of Lesotho (ECOL) had withheld results of six schools following the leaking of examination papers. The leaking of the examination papers is not just a criminal matter involving teachers and school principals. It goes to the very heart …
ELSEWHERE in this issue, we carry a story of the rising and desperate levels of poverty in urban areas after thousands of factory workers were emptied on the streets in the last year or two. We are aware that the textile sector has been in the doldrums for years. That crisis was worsened following the …
It’s been months since the passport crisis started and the government doesn’t seem to be anywhere near solving it. Instead, we have different explanations that come across as contrived excuses. Last year, the Ministry of Home Affairs blamed the crisis on the Russia-Ukraine war which it said had affected the supply of chips required to …
Lesotho’s defeat in its court battle against Frazer Solar is a monumental disaster. The judgment by the High Court of South Africa is a near-fatal blow to Lesotho’s development agenda. Unless something dramatic happens by way of a soft settlement or an improbable victory in the apex court, Lesotho will have to pay nearly M1.2 …
AN ambitious programme to vaccinate thousands of babies in Lesotho is headed for a spectacular failure after the government allegedly failed to procure enough syringes for the programme. The Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine is critical to ensure all children are vaccinated against tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections.
THE brutal assault of nine soldiers at the Maseru Central Correctional Facility last week is yet another sad reminder of the centrality of violence in our society. We are a people who tend to respond disproportionately at the slightest whiff of provocation.
There is something eerily sombre about this festive season. You see it in the unusually short queues in grocery and clothing shops around the country. Businesses, formal and informal, are reporting that this is probably the worst festive season in recent memory. Customers say they are struggling to buy things they could afford during previous …
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