With passports delayed for weeks and sometimes months, many Basotho migrants say they are forced to cross rivers into South Africa. Photos: Sechaba Mokhethi Sechaba Mokhethi The Department of Home Affairs office has been overwhelmed with snaking queues as thousands returned home to renew their documents over the festive season. Because many of
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Parliament blocks debate on explosive hospital report
A Public Accounts Committee report recommends that a lease at Queen Mamohato Memorial Hospital in Maseru should be terminated because of procurement irregularities. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi Sechaba Mokhethi Parliament blocked the tabling of a Public Accounts Committee report on procurement irregularities in the awarding of a contract to operate a private wing
Communications regulator finds Vodacom guilty of unfair market practices
Lesotho’s communications regulator has found Vodacom Lesotho guilty of unfair market practices. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi Sechaba Mokhethi The Lesotho Communications Authority has ruled that Vodacom breached consumer-protection laws by imposing airtime restrictions without warning customers. It has ordered a full reversal, after 138 subscribers reported unexplained changes to their airtime use. The Consumers Protection
Payments to sick miners resume after fraud scare
Former miners with permanent lung disease and the dependents of deceased miners queue in Maseru during a Tshiamiso Trust outreach visit in July. Sechaba Mokhethi South Africa’s Medical Bureau for Occupational Diseases (MBOD) has resumed payments of compensation to former miners in Lesotho. Payments were suspended in 2024 after the MBOD lost M1.4-million
Healthcare System on Its Knees: Why Lesotho is Losing the War on TB
Journalism is increasingly treated as a crime in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwean government has arrested and charged several high-profile journalists. AI generated photo. Zimbabwe CorrespondentState surveillance, arrests and detentions have created a climate of fear in newsrooms, and a new law will bring investigative journalism under direct state control. The effect is chilling: editors are self-censoring to protect their organisations. This is
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
20 years after they were displaced by the Mohale Dam, court tells families to share their compensation payout. Mohale Dam photo: Sechaba Mokhethi Sechaba Mokhethi Five families who were moved to make way for the Mohale Dam in the Lesotho mountains have lost a court battle over compensation. Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA)
Malawian politician, fired in 2022, appointed to Lesotho Highlands Water Commission
The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority's offices in Maseru. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi Sechaba Mokhethi Malawian politician Helen Buluma was appointed as secretary of the Lesotho Highlands Water Commission (LHWC) in April. Buluma previously acted as deputy CEO of Malawi’s state oil company, where she faced allegations of mismanagement. She was fired in 2022
Villagers lodge complaint with African Development Bank against Lesotho Highlands Water Project
The Polihali Dam wall under construction. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi Sechaba Mokhethi Eighteen rural communities in Lesotho have filed a complaint with the African Development Bank over the implementation of Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. Villagers allege a decade of broken promises, unsatisfactory relocations, a loss of natural resources, farm land
