“I am a detribalised South African,” said a good friend without a hint of the enormous significance of these words.

More children under the age of two years living in urban areas are suffering iron deficiency-related ailments compared to their rural counterparts, the National Nutrition Department under the Health and Social Welfare ministry has said.

The global community commemorates World Aids Day on Wednesday next week, an occasion dedicated by the World Health Organisation to raising awareness on the pandemic which continues to wreak havoc among communities.

At just 15 years of age, her mother has already given up on the youngest of her daughters from her first marriage.

MASERU – Sefate Democratic Congress (SDC) leader, Bofihla Nkuebe has launched a scathing attack on the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chairperson Limakatso Mokhothu, accusing her of overstepping her boundaries over an assessment of parties’ compliance with the electoral law.

Nkuebe is alleging Mokhothu crossed the line after the commissioner served the party wit

QUTHING – A 50-year-old man, described by some of his neighbours to the police as a “very weird” person, was dragged by some villagers to the Quthing Police Station on Friday last week after he allegedly raped his neighbour’s three-year-old daughter.

MASERU –The High Court on Monday this week intervened in a family feud that saw siblings allegedly ganging-up against their polygamist elder brother over the legitimacy of children born from his second marriage.

MASERU – Daring criminals suspected of having been assessing which Maseru West home they could break into last Saturday night opened fire at the police after the officers had tried to enquire about the men’s mission in the area.

MASERU – Former Police Deputy Commissioner, Bernard Ntaote –convicted on one count of fraud –walked out of the High Court a free man on Tuesday this week after he was slapped with a suspended six-month jail term or pay a fine of M12,000.

MASERU – Twenty students of the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology appeared before the Maseru Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday this week accused of holding an unlawful meeting near the Traffic Department offices on November 22.