PROFESSOR Nqosa Mahao’s Basotho Action Party (BAP) is imploding, amid fierce factional fights. The party’s chairman, Tello Kibane, this week abruptly resigned from all his positions in the party. He was the chairman of the party’s central executive committee (CEC), the working committee and the parliamentary caucus. Kibane cited the fights between Professor Mahao and […]
Prime Minister Sam Matekane this week appointed new ministers and deputy ministers in a move critics say is meant to ring-fence his coalition government. The appointments came as Matekane battled a serious plot in parliament to boot him out and upend his government. The decision will see Cabinet ballooning from the current 14 ministers to […]
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 […]