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Is construction at the Lesotho Highlands Water project polluting rivers?

“Plot” to defraud the state has not been proved: Government says landowners were compensated. But the records proving who was paid, how much, and when have disappeared.

Minister may benefit from M100-billion AI and hydropower deal

After MNN exposed Masakong sanitation crisis, legal action followed, but residents still have no toilets

How Lesotho’s water export project left host villages struggling for water

Community battles for fresh air as Polihali quarry dust engulfs their village

How FNB enabled people to join the SGK pyramid scheme

Basotho lose millions to SGK pyramid scheme

The flagship factory that was never built: Convalt’s M17m US loan ends in settlement

Questions over vetting process as Lesotho signs M98bn Kobong deal

After 133 workers fell ill at Polihali camp, vendors say SUN JV blamed the wrong people

Dispute stalls closure of hazardous dumpsite

Company sold stolen and expired insulin to Malawi’s hospitals

OnePower’s off-grid system leaves rural communities guessing

Villagers forced to poop in the open near M454 million Polihali village

The boatmen of Lesotho: a lifeline for villagers

Scott Hospital watched in silence as medical waste dumper lied to villagers

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25 years ago their land was taken from them. They still haven’t been compensated

Lesotho’s failed multi-million rand high-altitude sports centre

Why Basotho cross the border illegally to SA

Parliament blocks debate on explosive hospital report

Communications regulator finds Vodacom guilty of unfair market practices

Payments to sick miners resume after fraud scare

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The lingering scars of mining: How South African mines left Basotho miners to die

Families, moved to make way for Mohale Dam, lose court battle

Malawian politician, fired in 2022, appointed to Lesotho Highlands Water Commission

Villagers lodge complaint with African Development Bank against Lesotho Highlands Water Project

Dump site fire leaves Maseru residents in choking smoke for days

Lesotho’s outdated laws fail to protect threatened plant species

LDF commander’s wife at centre of mine dispute in Mashai

Wounded in Combat, Shortchanged at home

How SA’s Lesotho water project costs ballooned by M45-billion

Lesotho dams authority fights back in “legally baseless” court case

The human cost of SA’s water lifeline: Lesotho communities go to court

US aid cuts leave rural Lesotho schools searching for alternative funding

Starlink launches amid job losses in Lesotho

Mass lay-offs at garment factories as US tariffs bite

US cuts food aid to 36,000 children in Lesotho

Trout farming company’s strange “error” on donations

Big US-funded chicken project shuts down in Lesotho

Gem Diamonds’ Lesotho subsidiary faces scrutiny over handling of sexual harassment case

The thorny truth of Lesotho’s rosehip industry

Lesotho Highlands Water Project contractor suspended for polluting rivers

US shuts down massive Lesotho development project

Fight over fish in Katse Dam

The “biggest trout farm in Africa” and the failed R5,000 community fund

Security forces accused of brutal torture

How a secret migrant trafficking syndicate took over Malawi

Elon Musk is trying to do business in Lesotho, the country Donald Trump says “nobody has ever heard of”

“We were told to stop everything immediately”: HIV programmes collapse after USAID decision

Health Minister Selibe Mochoboroane joined by Social Cluster Portfolio Committee Chair Mokhothu Makhalanyane to in a handover ceremony of the cancer treatment facility plot to Plem Construction

Lesotho advances M800 million cancer facility amid legal battle

Human cost of distant wars: how conflict in Ukraine affects Basotho households

1,500 health workers sent home after US aid suspended

Behind the scene: How we exposed climate change’s impact on hydropower in Lesotho and Zambia

Zambia’s power shortages worsen as drought deepens

A tale of red herrings around the DCEO Head….? Or an even bigger ideological war? …

Lesotho power consumers feel the brunt of drought

The bitter cost of Mohale Dam resettlement

Reflections on the newly promulgated Procurement Act

How dry spells cripple Lesotho’s hydropower generation

Slow walk to deliver GH2 talk in Namibia

Dubious debt collection tender under scrutiny

Plans to relocate stinking dumpsite cancelled

How the British company was awarded exclusive rights to Lesotho’s waste

N$18m stolen from SME Bank washed by Mugabe’s ex-pilot

The business of waste and politics

WASCO mulls booting out a contractor for failure to complete M9.4 million project

Impact: SADP moves to audit its grants

UK-Diamond company that won water and climate awards has been linked to water pollution in Lesotho

MCA hires questionable SADP boss, fires her in one month

Police accused of bungling minor’s case

Botswana water transfer project abandons injured worker

Villagers demand answers over Botswana water transfer scheme

SA company signs dubious deal over NMDS debt collections

Widow’s home destroyed by roadworks in Polihali

Local authorities feast on community compensation funds

A watershed moment for citizens’ privacy and freedom

The stigma of disability

Woman loses house to fire as punishment for dating Polihali contractor

Political appointments cripple Tšepong hospital

Government tactic to silence key witness in forced sterilisation

NGO executives in tax evasion scandal

Invisible wounds of involuntary sterilisation on women living with HIV

Jailed Chinese gang leader comes and goes from prison as he pleases

SADP director’s steady move up the ranks

Rot dashes smallholder farmers’ hopes

Be merciful, don’t publish – LNDC

Factories leave trail of faeces, chemically polluted water in two major towns

Factories dump chemicals into key rivers

Matekane’s M6.7b Letšeng contracts raise alarm on water pollution

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Reflections on Lesotho’s 2022 National Assembly Elections

Top Zambian presidential advisor embroiled in police investigation into ‘misdirected’ Sun Pharmaceuticals’ funds.

Lesotho’s Dangerous Water Gamble

Plunder from the East

M205-million spent…still no water for Tsikoane residents

Gone with the wind: Lesotho’s $15-billion energy pipedream

ZAMBIA: TOP HEALTH MINISTRY OFFICIALS ACCUSED OF MEDDLING IN MEDICINE PROCUREMENT

Living in a ‘critical state’: The price of a South African town’s dirty water

‘A tsunami of human waste’ – Half of South Africa’s sewage treatment works are failing, says report

Communities blame Letšeng mine pollution for trail of sickness, death and ‘poisoned pasture’

Exposed: Letšeng secretly admits contaminating water sources

DPP accused of protecting Thabane’s at any cost

An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Ministry lovers embroiled in controversial NMDS debt collection tender

MNN Centre for Investigative Journalism under attack

Deadly, state-neglected dumpsite cuts live short

TRC Board member resigns…as Peshoane is cleared

Credibility of TRC chairperson questioned

NGO boss accused of diverting projects funds to form a party

Working for Chinese: where sexual harassment is part of the job

TRC boss sent home pending corruption probe

Illegal award of mining licences on LHDA sites blocked

How corruption, politics threw Lesotho into jumping China debt

Former minister uncomfortably close to illegal resale of kangaroo meat

Sandstone producer in ‘illegal’ extension of mining site

Spotlight on sinking school feeding project

ABC MPs trade govt land for cannabis shares

Water, water everywhere…but not a drop to drink

Questionable Chinese firm bungles road blasting

Minister, MPs in govt tractors grab

‘Secret’ M2-billion China deal exposed

Mothae’s bid: a pricing manipulation threat

LEC top official in M12-million corruption scandal

Grissag behind Lesotho’s M2.4-billion loan guarantee rumpus

Questions over contractors in M2.4-billion stadium deal

John embroiled in AD t-shirts brawl

Multinational company captures Lesotho cannabis regulators

Big Lesotho airport upgrade opens old wounds

AD bigwigs feed on rural water project

Financial crisis rocks Blue Cross

Sjamboked: pregnant woman narrates Kao ordeal

Our Stories

Is construction at the Lesotho Highlands Water project polluting rivers?

October 26, 2026October 26, 2026

The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority will refer suspected pollution for testing. We previously revealed that Kopano Ke Matla’s wastewater-treatment systems were found to be non-compliant,

“Plot” to defraud the state has not been proved: Government says landowners were compensated. But the records proving who was paid, how much, and when have disappeared.

September 29, 2026September 29, 2026

The contested Ha Mathata land with maize crop. Photo: Retselisitsoe Khabo Billy Ntaote A missing government file has become the centre of a standoff between the Lesotho

Minister may benefit from M100-billion AI and hydropower deal

September 15, 2026September 15, 2026

How Lesotho’s water export project left host villages struggling for water

August 26, 2026August 26, 2026

Community battles for fresh air as Polihali quarry dust engulfs their village

August 13, 2026August 13, 2026

How FNB enabled people to join the SGK pyramid scheme

July 31, 2026September 7, 2026

Basotho lose millions to SGK pyramid scheme

July 23, 2026July 23, 2026

The flagship factory that was never built: Convalt’s M17m US loan ends in settlement

July 2, 2026July 2, 2026

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Dispute stalls closure of hazardous dumpsite

June 24, 2026June 24, 2026

A view of the Tšosane dumpsite in Ha Tšosane, Maseru. The dump sits amid homes and schools, exposing residents to pollution and other health risks.

Company sold stolen and expired insulin to Malawi’s hospitals

April 17, 2026April 17, 2026

OnePower’s off-grid system leaves rural communities guessing

April 17, 2026May 5, 2026

Five community council members face 28 corruption charges

February 17, 2026February 17, 2026

25 years ago their land was taken from them. They still haven’t been compensated

January 30, 2026April 29, 2026

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