SOME Basotho National Party (BNP) factions are plotting to topple leader Machesetsa Mofomobe. The factions are allegedly lobbying constituencies to demand a special conference where they will try to push out Mofomobe. Sources say two of the party’s three factions met at a private home in Upper Thamae over the weekend to flesh out their …
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Parliament is in a stampede to pass the Administration of Estates and Inheritance Bill and the Labour Bill by end of this month. The United States government says it will not release urgently needed development funds unless Lesotho first passes the new laws by March.
AN MP, her husband, and a former senior police officer are locked in a bitter dispute over some piece of land with the Thaba-Tseka Technical Institute (TTI). The school wants to eject the Thaba-Tseka MP ’Mamamello Holomo, her husband Mosiuoa Holomo, and the former district police boss Senior Superintendent Litsietsi Selimo from a piece of …
“YOU love to look earnest and inform the world that it’s the ‘duty of responsible business men to be strictly moral as an example to the community.’ In fact you’re so earnest about morality, old Georgie, that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.” Sinclair Lewis (Babbitt, p. 69, 1922) Africa …
PARLIAMENT has been told it has no right to know the full contents of contract agreements that were signed by companies that are building the Polihali Dam. The Natural Resources cluster had asked the Ministry of Natural Resources for the contracts to enable it to deal with workers’ grievances.
THE Basotho Action Party (BAP) has requested Prime Minister Sam Matekane to reassign the principal secretary of energy, Tankiso Phapano, to the Ministry of Sports. The BAP made the request on Monday as the rift between Phapano and Energy Minister Professor Nqosa Mahao, the BAP leader, widened. The bad blood between Professor Mahao and Phapano …
They fired several shots while hurling insults, sending mourners into a state of pandemonium in Ketanyane, Ha-Mothibe, in Mohale’s Hoek. The gunshots were followed by the blowing of vuvuzelas, and the sound of famo music from the accordion.
Morojele’s novel has a first-person narrator (or focalizer, as some of us prefer to say nowadays), whose surname is Mohlala; for obvious reasons, and everyone calls him EG. Unlike many of the other characters, he is not absolutely impoverished, as he has a row of rooms he rents out (albeit his tenants hardly ever pay). …
THE Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) held a crisis meeting last night following a threat to sue by a faction of the party’s youth league. The RFP’s spokesman, Trade Minister Mokhethi Shelile, told thepost yesterday that “we have an emergency meeting tonight to discuss the youth’s demand”.
TWO South African women suspected of being a syndicate that stole M57 million from the Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) appeared in the Ficksburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. Uthando Lorraine Modise, 37, and Marcious Lerato Lisene, 37, who are directors of a company called Traggulogy (Pty) Ltd, were arrested on Monday.
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