POLICE Commissioner Holomo Molibeli on Monday lifted a six-month ban on the issuance of gun licences. In a savingram released on Friday, Commissioner Molibeli instructed his officers to resume receiving new applications for licences and process pending ones. The decision by the police boss to lift the ban comes at a time when Lesotho has […]
Lesotho’s Natural Resources Minister Mohlomi Moleko says South Africa should pay M12 billion worth of terminal benefits to Basotho who worked in the mines. Moleko was speaking a week after he was involved in a nasty public spat with his South African counterpart Gwede Mantashe. The two clashed after Lesotho sought to retrieve the bodies […]
A parliamentary committee is set to grill the National Security Service (NSS) boss, Pheello Ralenkoane, after his damaging legal battle with Machesetsa Mofomobe. Ralenkoane will appear before the Prime Minister’s Ministries and Departments, Governance, Foreign Relations and Information committee next Monday. thepost has been told that the committee is concerned that Ralenkoane could have overstepped […]
There was a time when Nkaku Kabi appeared only a mere millimetre away from becoming Lesotho’s next Prime Minister. With then Prime Minister Majoro on the ropes, Kabi, backed by a coterie of hawks in the All Basotho Convention (ABC) party, was itching to take over the country’s biggest job. At one point, it appeared […]
THE Basotho Action Party (BAP) says it is mulling dragging the government to court over its plan to recruit party cadres to work in a poverty reduction programme. Professor Nqosa Mahao, who is the BAP leader, told a press conference in Maseru on Tuesday that the government was parcelling out jobs to people connected to […]