. . . as major shareholder is accused of using offshore tax haven, transfer pricing By Billy Ntaote THE main shareholder for the country’s largest milling company, Lesotho Flour Mills (LFM), has been accused of using an offshore tax haven and transfer pricing to avoid paying its partner, the government, dividends over
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Calls for Workers to Unite
…as workers unions isolated celebrations expose deep-rooted fragmentation on May Day Lesotho. By Billy Ntaote WORKERS unions and federations joined the world in celebration of May Day amid deep rooted weaknesses of a fragmented working class that has allowed political polarisation to undermine workers bargaining power. These weaknesses, exacerbated by the country’s continued
Khaketla slapped with graft charge
Sechaba Mokhethi Lesotho Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) has slapped former minister of finance ‘Mamphono Khaketla with a corruption charge for the alleged solicitation of M4 million ($302 000) bribe in exchange for a government fleet tender. According to the anti-corruption body, Khaketla, together with her co-accused, Thabo Napo solicited
Call to review overlapping army, police functions
Billy Ntaote By its design, cognisant there is no potential external threat to Lesotho surrounded by democratic South Africa today, the architecture of the army is designed in such a way that it shall also venture into ordinary law enforcement. But, it is this role of law enforcement that the Lesotho Defence
How family hijacked (and then lost) a Lesotho diamond mine
Call to close wide gender gap
By Billy Ntaote Addis Ababa The portrayal of women in the media across the African continent continues to expose a wide gender gap between woman and men amid ambitious continental benchmarks. A paper on Media Portrayal of women and media gap in Africa presented to the African Union Specialized Technical Committee on Information
Controversial Chief Justice’s lease deal still in force
By Billy Ntaote A sub-lease agreement that secured a lavish mansion belonging to the High Court’s judge, Justice Teboho Moiloa, for residential use by her boss, Chief Justice Nthomeng Majara, continues to be operational despite an internal audit draft report that condemned the arrangement in March this year. Compiled by the Ministry
Are workers reduced to a basket of votes?
By Sechaba Mokhethi WHILE factory workers’ plight has for the years not topped agenda of the rulers, every political party seems to bank on their huge numbers come elections time. Following Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili’s loss of a vote of no confidence in ninth Parliament and followed by His Majesty King Letsie
‘To curb corruption, Lesotho needs to reverse burden of proof’
Anti-corruption expert, Dr Roger Koranteng, from the Commonwealth secretariat in London, United Kingdom, visited Lesotho last week to hold a five-day workshop for the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) and its partners, namely Auditor General, Financial Intelligence Unit and Ombudsman. Dr Koranteng is head of the public-sector governance at the
Lesotho Gov’t cracks down on Journalists
The government of Lesotho has told the African Union (AU) that reports about harassment of the Lesotho Times journalists are “just an appeal” to absolve them from criminal charges they are facing, dismissing the allegations as flawed “as the purpose is only meant to put weight on the journalists’ vendetta
