BILLY NTAOTE and MPHO THAA THAA A deal to amend a 25 years sub-lease agreement of a prime land owned by Co-op Lesotho located in Botha-Bothe town acquired by Hippo Transport for M700, 000.00 has backfired after the sub-lessee abandoned signing amendment deal. The MNN Centre for Investigative Journalism has learned the Cooperative has now given

…smacks of corruption threaten total shutdown BILLY NTAOTE and MPHO THAA THAA A drive for the renaissance of Cooperatives in Lesotho is under threat as one erstwhile success story Cooperative battles to shake-off its dark past riddled with mismanaged funds and corruption that drove it into near collapse. Co-op Lesotho, known to have been the mother-body to

Fails to account for M6 million annual budget Assets exposed to misappropriationBeset with irregular accounting practices KEISO MOHLOBOLI Lesotho’s only national rehabilitation centre for drug and alcohol addicts, Blue Cross, has shut its doors amid indications that the institution is in financial crisis owing to a stand-off with its parent, the Ministry of Health. The Blue Cross Thaba-Bosiu Centre was

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

 "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

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

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

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

SECHABA MOKHETHI MOKHOTLONG - Enraged communities surrounding the Letšeng diamond mine have listed a plethora of grievances they want the mine to address. The MNN Centre for Investigative Journalism learned recently about the villagers’ complaints that include cracked houses and toilets, blockaded river sources, polluted water, seized pastures and exotic animal diseases

A bloody war pitting two villages over the mine’s relocation plan looms   THUSO MOSABALA A protracted dispute simmering between the Storm Mountain Diamonds’ (SMD) Kao mine and the surrounding community has taken a new twist; this time igniting rivalry between two villages and threatening bloodbath. The MNN Centre for Investigative Journalism