Billy Ntaote The race for leadership in the upcoming All Basotho Convention elective conference is quite interesting. A recent development that saw the National University of Lesotho Vice Chancellor Nqosa Mahao publicly announcing he will be locking horns and digging heels into the sand in contest for the deputy leadership post was
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The corrupt fight against corruption…
By Monaheng Seeiso Rasekoai The reality is that whenever a debate on corruption comes to the mould, it often amounts to a theatrical performance by politicians and ordinary citizens alike who endeavour to ride on a high horse and pose as ethical virgins like Jeffrey Archer’s fictitious character in Clean Sweep
Illicit diamond flows stifle mining industry
Billy Ntaote and Keiso Mohloboli Lesotho’s fast-growing diamond mining industry could have lost hundreds of millions in revenue to smugglers believed to have been operating under the radar between the country and South Africa for a long time. Past weeks arrest of the mining minister’s personal secretary, Refiloe Mokone, by the South African Police Service’s
NDSO: Govt to blame for drugs shortage
LERATO MATHEKA The National Drug Service Organisation has shifted blame of drugs shortage at hospitals to government, citing there was an unnecessary red tape in procurement processes that hampered timely distribution of the drugs. The NDSO’s General Manager Matebele Sefali told the MNN Centre for Investigative Journalism that before they could deliver
NDSO guzzles health budget
Minister suspects corruption LERATO MATHEKA Health Minister Nkaku Kabi is an unhappy man over multimillions of Maloti that government spends in procurement of medical products at the National Drug Service Organisation. The Mafeteng-based NDSO guzzles M450 million a year from the ministry’s coffers, placing it second receiving largest chunk of the health sector’s
Thabane ‘dumps’ trade advisor
"I have no trade advisor, I have never had such because trade advisors are civil servants,” says PM Thabane. Xie admits Lesotho government indeed awarded him tenders to supply red meat. PASCALINAH KABI Prime Minister Dr Thomas Motsoahae Thabane has disowned controversial Chinese businessman Yan Xieas his trade advisor amid allegations that
LEWA official bays for ministers’ blood
KANANELO BOLOETSE MASERU – Suspended Lesotho Electricity and Water Authority (LEWA) board member, Pashu Mochesane, intends to drag two ministers to court over their alleged refusal to reinstate him despite last month’s High Court order directing his reinstatement. The MNN Centre for Investigative Journalism learned this week about a potential showdown at
Shaun’s new job: Murder in Lesotho
LEKHETHO NTSUKUNYANE The Lesotho government has invited Shaun Abrahams, the controversial former boss of South Africa’s prosecutions authority, to prosecute eight soldiers accused of murdering Lesotho’s former army commander, Maaparankoe Mahao, in 2015. It is the most politically sensitive case in the country. Abrahams confirmed his appointment as the prosecutor of Lesotho
Minopex accused of unfair labour practices
KANANELO BOLOETSE MASERU – Basotho miners employed by one of the contracting companies at Letšeng mine in Mokhotlong - Minopex Lesotho – have accused their employer of unfair labour practices, alleging the company hired them on short-term contracts to avoid paying higher wages. A three-month investigation has found that the miners employed
Local company cries for stake in bulk fuel tender
…as Lesotho prepares to secure its energy security KANANELO BOLOETSE MASERU – With government searching for a service provider for design, development and maintenance of highly specialised fuel storage facility, there is a growing consternation by a potential bidder that the tender is skewed in favour of foreign contractors to the
