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Tensions are coming to a boil at the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) as the fight between two senior officers heads to the High Court. IEC’s public relations manager Tuoe Hantsi this week filed an urgent application to block his boss Mpaiphele Maqutu’s plan to haul him before a disciplinary panel for June 16.

Since the 2000, every Minister who has been designated to the Sports and Recreation Ministry has come into office with a promise to turn sport into a professional industry. All of them. I have had serious concerns about the promises which have always been premised on more rhetoric than an understanding of the realities of …

THE National Security Service (NSS) says it wants to confiscate Machesetsa Mofomobe’s phones because they contain information about his involvement in the murder of journalist Ralikonelo Joki. The NSS also claims Mofomobe’s phones could reveal how he compromised national security by receiving highly classified information from a junior NSS intelligence officer suspected to be his …

PRIME Minister Sam Matekane says security agencies must fight “fire with fire” to contain the deadly wave of violence gripping the country. Speaking at a 22nd NGO Week Celebration on Monday, Matekane said “a gun can be stopped by another gun”. He was responding to the recent killings that have happened in Lesotho in recent …

A study released this week says the police brutality is a direct result of a “delinquent culture within the LMPS fraternity created by poor supervision and outright lack of accountability”. The brutal assessment is contained in a report, Lesotho Police Brutality Study Report 2021 – 2022, conducted by a local researcher Lesiamo Molapo on behalf …

WE may never know why the government abruptly cancelled the curfew last week. It could be a decision informed by the fierce backlash from the public. That the curfew was deeply unpopular was apparent even to those who reluctantly nursed some hope that it might, at the very least, reduce the murders that have rocked …

Late on the afternoon of Saturday May 27, 2023, one of us had a visitor in the person of a woman in her late 30s. She was begging for food, and was almost losing her mind from hunger. She had a baby on her back who, the woman said, was two months old.

TWELVE Rastafarians have filed an urgent application in the Constitutional Court challenging regulations that outlaw the growing, possession and smoking of marijuana. The application comes after two Rastafarians were arrested and charged with growing and possessing dagga at their Ha-Matala home.

NATIONAL Security Service (NSS) boss, Pheello Ralenkoane, could regret his decision to take on Machesetsa Mofomobe in a legal battle. Ralenkoane filed an affidavit to oppose Mofomobe’s application to block the NSS’ attempts to confiscate his phones.

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