THE Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) is being pressured to hire some politically connected people when it is struggling to pay its mounting debts and other critical obligations. Investigations by thepost have revealed that the pressure on the LEC’s management is from the Principal Secretary of Energy, Tankiso Phapano, who allegedly wants the power company to …
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THE family of the slain famo musician, Khopolo Kholuoe, says their son could have been murdered by close associates in a well-planned assassination plot. Their accounts of what happened is in sharp contrast to the version of the police who insist that this was yet another ordinary crime in Lesotho. Khopolo’s family and friends suspect …
Advocate Lebonajoang Ramohalali was acting as a lawyer for a couple that was locked in a bitter divorce case in Hlotse in Leribe district. When the couple failed to pay his legal fees, they agreed that they would surrender their vehicle to him which would then be sold to raise the funds for the fees. …
A group of soldiers who recently returned from Mozambique where they were fighting insurgents has been arrested and detained by the army for alleged indiscipline, thepost heard this week. This was revealed by the army boss, Lieutenant General Mojalefa Letsoela, at a ceremony to honour the Lesotho Defence Force Combat Shooting Team which was returning …
PARLIAMENT is expected to establish a National Security Commission that will be tasked with the appointment of heads of security agencies in Lesotho. The amendment will severely curtail the powers of the prime minister to appoint his own cronies to head security agencies. The Commission will determine who heads the Lesotho Defence Force, the Lesotho …
THE Revenue Services Lesotho (RSL) on Tuesday destroyed illicit cigarettes worth an estimated M126 000 that were seized at the country’s borders. The cigarettes, which included Boss, Tamputi, Chief and other brands, were burnt at the Tšoeneng landfill in Rothe. Lebohang Nokana, the RSL manager for Inland Ports Services, said the cigarettes were seized at …
MAJOR General Matela Matobakele has been named as one of the soldiers who allegedly tortured a man who is now demanding millions in damages from the government. Major General Matobakele is implicated in a letter of demand that Liteboho Mahloana’s lawyers sent to the Attorney General this week.
IT should have been a simple story to tell. Letsile Tebogo, the boy from Botswana’s Kanye, had won gold in the men’s Olympics 200m in Paris to make history. Spectacular! An inspiring story for Africa’s young sprinters. It is possible little one! Look at Tebogo! That’s the story Tebogo wanted to tell and the media …
THREE police officers have been dismissed from the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) after being involved in various crimes. Police Constable Ntsane Litšoane, 35, from Mateanong in Mokhotlong was fired on July 16 this year. He was deployed at the Mokhotlong police.
TWO magistrates and an academic had a tough time this week during interviews for the position of judge of the High Court. The interviews were conducted by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). The magistrates are Palesa Rantara, sitting in the Thaba-Tseka Magistrates’ Court, and Motlatsi Kolisang from the Small Claims Court.
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