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VODACOM Lesotho Foundation and Maloti Rotary Club yesterday donated health care equipment to people with disabilities in Maseru. The healthcare equipment included wheelchairs, crutches, physiotherapy devices, surgical tools, and patients’ beds for people with disabilities.

Some 40 years ago, Linoto Pholoane was among commuters who were travelling in a bus from Matelile to Maseru. It had just rained and Tsoaing River was in flood. The driver however insisted that he could cross and when they were in the middle of the bridge, the bus was swept away, triggering howls of …

A director in the Department of Passport Services in Teya-Teyaneng, Tšepo Moeketsi, appeared before court yesterday charged with corruption. Moeketsi, 55, of Ha-Foso in Berea district was released on free bail. He will appear again in court on September 4. He was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly soliciting a bribe from a woman who was …

THE Lesotho College of Education (LCE) is struggling to settle a M96 million tax bill with the Revenue Services Lesotho (RSL). The teachers’ college has failed to submit the Pay-as-You-Earn (PAYE) amounting to M25 million to the taxman. That bill, with its penalties, has now ballooned to M96 million, parliament heard this week.

THE All Basotho Convention (ABC) has broken ranks with the opposition after they threw their weight behind the national reforms. Party leader, Nkaku Kabi, said the decision to back the reforms did not signal that the ABC was turning its back against fellow opposition parties in parliament.

TROUBLES are mounting for beleaguered oil mogul, Thabiso Moroahae, the owner of Tholo Energy. While he faces allegations of corruption and fraud in Lesotho, his South African registered Tholo Energy Services CC has suffered a crushing defeat in its seven-year legal battle against the tax authority.

STREET vendors in Teya-Teyaneng will share M50 000 prize money raised through gate takings in Lioli and Bantu charity tournament of October last year. The grateful vendors were debating on how to distribute the funds on Tuesday, with some proposing to share it equally while their committee wanted it to be used stock that would …

QUEEN Mamohato Memorial Hospital (QMMH) last week received a donation of 10 dialysis machines from a Japanese company, Tokushukai Medical Group. The dialysis machines can hold up to seven patients in the renal unit and three patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Minister of Health Selibe Mochoboroane said the dialysis centre will undoubtedly go …

A parliamentary committee is seized with a Bill that will seek to impose stringent penalties for armed robbers, stock-thieves and those found in possession of illegal guns. The Arms and Ammunition Bill, which is under the Internal Security Act, and the Stock Theft Bill, were brought to the Portfolio Committee on Law by Advocate Lekhetho …

A defiant Basotho National Party (BNP) member from the Maseru Central constituency has dared leader Machesetsa Mofomobe to suspend him. Relebohile Thaele is one of the nine people who wrote the King and Prime Minister Sam Matekane apologising for what they described as Mofomobe’s unbecoming behaviour. They accused Mofomobe of spewing insults against eminent people …