This week was a busy one for our local politicians who were kept on their toes. We learned for example, that an urgent meeting was orchestrated by a fear-stricken Mayor of Maluti A Phofung, Mofumahadi Mathokoana Mopedi.

The year 2010 has come and gone, with so much happening in what had widely been touted as southern Africa’s year of progress.

A number of developments have taken place over the past few weeks that highlight a disturbing trend and a sequence of events in our society.

The festive season is upon us and, with it, the madness that almost always characterises this time of the year.

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.

A colleague announced early this year she was relocating to a more affluent section of the city due to the high rate of violent crime and burglaries in her neighbourhood.

In this issue, we carry a feature on the disastrous long-term effects of skin-lightening creams. We believe this trend has now gone beyond a quest for fashion or merely innocuous preferences by some women in the country.

If the Lesotho Congress for Democracy-led government goes with a strategy of appealing to the poor for their votes, it must be careful about what it promises the financial markets.

On Monday , it will be 44 years since Lesotho gained independence from Britain on October 4, 1966. And if people’s sentiments are anything to go by, it has not been the rollercoaster ride Basotho had anticipated in an era of self-determination and freedom. Each successive independence anniversary only appears to fuel people’s anger and [...]

A lecturer at the country’s highest institution of learning made the shocking remark that was to set the tone for our investigation into the goings-on at the National University of Lesotho. The expatriate professor said he had been trying to find out why someone in her third year of study “could hardly construct a meaningful [...]