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Letshego launches digital wellbeing programme
Tokelo Khausela FINANCIAL services provider, Letshego Group, has launched a new digital wellbeing programme, LetsGo Digital Wellbeing. The programme was launched over the weekend at Maseru Club, in...
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LCD’s track record speaks for itself: Metsing
LESOTHO Congress for Democracy (LCD) leader, Mothetjoa Metsing, who had been in self-imposed exile in South Africa since December 2021, finally returned home in August. He had fled to avoid standing...
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I Hereby Publicly Pledge (In Anticipation of 200 years of Lesotho’s Founding...
By Advocate Mothepa Ndumo The brilliant Mosotho Historian, Dr. Sean Maliehe, writes in his book chapter, Money and markets for and against the people: The rise and fall of Basotho’s economic...
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Lesotho needs credible polls to achieve stability: Commonwealth
THE Commonwealth organisation recently deployed a six-member team to observe Lesotho’s general elections which will be held tomorrow. Ahead of the team’s deployment, the 56-nation association...
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Vote counting underway in Lesotho’s polls
Herbert Moyo VOTE counting is underway countrywide after the end of voting in Lesotho’s general elections at 5pm today, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has said. Barring unforeseen...
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I’m tried and tested: Mokhothu
AHEAD of tomorrow’s crunch polls, the Lesotho Times (LT) Special Projects Editor, Bongiwe Zihlangu, sat down with Democratic Congress (DC) leader, Mathibeli Mokhothu, who shared his reasons why...
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None of the parties share the RFP’s revolutionary ideology: Matekane
REVOLUTION for Prosperity (RFP) leader, Sam Matekane, will be contesting elections for the first time ever. Not only is he aiming to be the next Mantšonyane member of parliament, he has set his...
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Thabane govt subjected me to the most painful chapter of my life: Majara
…ex-chief justice outlines RFP’s plans for judicial reforms, independence from executive FORMER Chief Justice Nthomeng Majara is a history maker in that she was the first woman to be appointed to the...
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Career politicians have ruined the country: Matlanyane
FORMER Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) governor, Retšelisitsoe Matlanyane, will tomorrow venture into unfamiliar territory as a parliamentary candidate for the Qalabane constituency. She will be...
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Editor’s shooting trial postponed again
Mohalenyane Phakela THE trial of four soldiers accused of the attempted murder of former Lesotho Times and Sunday Express editor, Lloyd Mutungamiri, has again been postponed, this time to 16 November...
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Four Basotho gunned down in Polokwane
…as illegal miners’ turf wars escalate Mohalenyane Phakela FOUR Lesotho nationals have been gunned down in Westenburg, Polokwane, in what South African Police Service (SAPS) say could been a turf war...
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Kabi, Lehlanya reaffirm alliance
…as wanted Famo leader seemingly backtracks on his pledge to surrender to SA police Moroke Sekoboto ALL Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Nkaku Kabi, and murder-accused Famo gang leader, Sarele...
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Govt seeks to nullify controversial M500 million GVG tender
Herbert Moyo COMMUNICATIONS, Science and Technology minister, Samuel Rapapa, has teamed up with the Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA) to file a High Court application to nullify the controversial...
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Elections 2022 updates
As former DC Leader Pakalitha Mosisili promised his successor Mathibeli Mokhothu at last week’s star rally, that the party would retain all three Qachas Nek constituencies, which it won at the 2017...
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SR wins Motete Constituency
SR leader, Teboho Mojapela’s win of the Motete constituency in Butha-Buthe, means that his Deputy-Leader ‘Mamarame Matela (former LCA CEO), automatically assumes the first spot on the SR party list....
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Rapapa wins Mosalemane constituency
Professor Ntoi Rapapa, the AD’s deputy-leader, has wrestled the Mosalemane constituency from his ABC chairperson brother, Sam Tsuinyane Rapapa, polling 2345 votes to the latter’s 387. The RFP came in...
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Mahao loses Koro-Koro constituency
BAP leader, Professor Nqosa Mahao has been beaten in the Koro-Koro constituency, scoring 1390 to RFP’s Abinyane Mahatanya’s 3214. DC candidate, Mohau Ts’ilo, scored 2128 votes. BAP Deputy Leader...
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Maesaiah loses Mokhotlong constituency
Former First Lady, ‘Maesaiah Thabane, who contested elections in the Mokhotlong constituency on an ABC ticket, polled a paltry 190 votes, while former minister and BPP leader, Tefo Mapesela, scored a...
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RFP takes commanding lead
BUSINESS mogul, Sam Matekane’s Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) party has taken a commanding lead in Lesotho’s general elections. The seven-month-old party had won 47 out of the 64 constituencies...
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Bigwigs comprehensively beaten in polls
…Kabi, Letsosa, Moleleki all concede defeat… ’Marafaele Mohloboli SEVERAL political heavyweights, including All Basotho Convention (ABC) leader, Nkaku Kabi, Democratic Congress deputy leader,...
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