The Pharmacy and Medicines Regulatory Authority Head Office in Malawi. Photos: Golden Matonga Golden Matonga and Tumpale Ng’ambi A Malawian pharmaceutical supplier was shut down in 2013 after babies died at a hospital where it supplied faulty antibiotics. The company then relaunched under a new name and in 2022 it bought stolen, expired insulin, relabelled

Sechaba Mokhethi Five Qiloane Community Council members are charged with 28 counts of corruption. Prosecution alleges the council’s quintet collected M98,250 in unauthorised “special fees” from land applicants. Each accused was released on M5,000 bail; trial date to be set on 3 March. Five members of the Qiloane Community Council appeared before the Maseru

The community of Ha Rapokolana was moved for the Mohale Dam which supplies water to South Africa. Chief Rapokolana Theko (on the right) says the authorities have broken their promises to the villagers. Photos: Sechaba Mokhethi Sechaba Mokhethi The community of Ha Rapokolana in Lesotho is still waiting for compensation for land

The decaying Rapokolana facility was built in 2005 but has never been fully operational. It is a missed opportunity for athletes from South Africa and Lesotho. The athlete’s village at the Rapokolana High Altitude Sports Training Centre is currently occupied by road workers. Photos: Sechaba Mokhethi. Sechaba Mokhethi Built in 2005 to

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

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

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

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