MALEFETSANE Nchaka, a former Water Ministry principal secretary, has been dragged to court to answer charges of fraud and theft of government funds. Nchaka and two others, Leboelo Molefe and Lebohang Tumahole, are accused of abusing government vehicles to fund their political party’s campaign in the run-up to last year’s elections. They are accused of […]
THE Movement for Economic Change (MEC) bigwigs are in a bitter fight with constituency committees over the selection of local government election candidates. The MEC’s National Executive Committee has now filed an urgent application in the High Court in an attempt to reverse the names that were submitted to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for […]
‘Mahlompho Akhosi’s job as a car spares salesperson used to be simple. She would sell the same parts all day. The majority of customers who came to her counter at Unity Tip Top, a spares shop, wanted oil, spark plugs, fuses or oil filters. In other words, they were looking for basic vehicle maintenance parts. […]
Dozens of workers at Suntextile are set to be sent home at the end of the month as the turbulence in the textile sector continues. A decline in orders from the United States and other markets has hit the textile company. The human resource manager, ’Mahlompho Nkoko, confirmed to thepost this week that “many will […]
Walim Ashraf, the man charged in connection with the M7.4 million heist that rocked two big companies, forced FNB Lesotho to unfreeze his account and then continued to use the money even as he was being investigated for fraud. Ashraf, a businessman of Indian descent based in Mafeteng, is allegedly part of a syndicate that […]