Lesotho News

In November 2004, the government of the Kingdom of Lesotho introduced an non-contributory old age pension scheme, in keeping with one of the Millennium Development Goals of poverty alleviation by the year 2015 ...

Some foreign leaders have recently extended their warm congratulation to China over the successful mission of the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft.

Ghanaian President John Kufuor, who has assumed the chairmanship of the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, on Thursday officially opened the 6th ACP heads of state and government summit in the Ghanian ...

The CEO of National Heritage Council, Sonwabile Mancotywa, says the Musina area in Limpopo - which borders South Africa and Zimbabwe - will be recognised as a shining example of the values of ubuntu.

Today is Saturday, October 4, the 278th day of 2008. There are 88 days left in the year.

CNN reported yesterday that a honking big diamond was discovered at the Letseng Mine in the Kingdom of Lesotho.

September 23, 2008 London-Mining company Gem Diamonds, in cooperation with the government of the Kingdom of Lesotho, recovered a 478-carat diamond from a mine in the African kingdom, the company announced ...

A diamond unearthed in the southern African nation of Lesotho could yield one of the largest and highest quality round polished diamonds, according to a statement Monday from company that found it.

South Africa will continue to work with the Republic of Burundi to ensure that it meets its guarantees of peace and stability, President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday.

HA TSIU, Makoanyane Letsoara, a subsistence farmer in Ha Tsiu, a village 100km east of Maseru, capital of Lesotho, is in his forties and the sole supporter of his family of six - his mother, wife, children and ...

Mantseuoa Rantho has been feeding her family on credit. "We call it living on skoloto [credit] in Sesotho," she says.

HA TSIU, 16 September 2008 - Mathabang Letsoara, in her early twenties, lives with her family of six in Ha Tsiu, a village 100km east of Maseru, capital of Lesotho.

Motlomelo Thakali lives with his family of five in Motloang, a village 70km east of Maseru, capital of Lesotho.

Chief Paulosi Lebakeng is a troubled man. Food production has dipped in his village of Ha Tsiu, perched about 2,500m above sea level on the Thaba Putsoa mountains, about 100km east of Lesotho's capital, Maseru.

Entering college, students are told that with enough effort they'll make it out in one piece.

South Africa will donate game to the Kingdom of Lesotho National Park during this week's opening of the Maliba Lodge in Lesotho, the environmental and tourism ministry said.

Former president Sir Ketumile Masire is confident that Lesotho's current post-election political impasse could be resolved by the end of the year.

Lesotho and South Africa have taken another step forward in cementing economic relations between the two neighbours.

Free State farmers affected by recent veld fires were given bales of fodder by agriculture MEC Mamiki Qhabathe over the weekend, her office said on Monday.

President leaves for Mwanawasa's burial By Caesar Zvayi PRESIDENT Mugabe left Harare yesterday afternoon to join other heads of state and government at the burial of the late Zambian president, Levy Patrick ...