09 October 2023 by Teboho Lebesa International Women’s Peace Group on Peace Committee chairperson, ‘Malejaka Letooane, and member, ‘Mantopi Lebofa, attended the Summit in South Korea in September 2023. Credit: IWPG According to 2018 Lesotho survey on violence against children and youth, one in seven women aged 18 years and older [...]
Parliament’s Natural Resources Committee finds MoU between government and Metsi ke Bophelo grossly flawed, recommends postponement of linked Water Expo pencilled for 12-13 October 2023. 6 October 2023 by Pascalinah Kabi Natural Resources Minister Mohlomi Moleko says his ministerial team will meet on Monday to decide the future of Water Expo. [...]
One a hotheaded young man who did not believe in the power of medicinal plants, Thabo Letele is now a renowned traditional healer encouraging his peers to engage in a climate smart harvesting of traditional medicines in Lesotho. 1 0 [...]
18 August 2021 by Pascalinah Kabi At least twelve life-saving medicinal plants face extinction in Lesotho. The twelve are Othonna natalensis, Othonna natalensis (Elephant’s root), Hypoxis hemerocallidea (African potato or star flower), Dicoma anomala (stomach bush), Pentanisia prunelloides (broad-leaved pentanisia), Bulbine narcissifolia (star-leaved bulbine), Eriocephalus tenuifolius (wild rosemary), Alepidea amatymbica [...]
As African countries grapple with effects of climate change, African leaders met in Nairobi, Kenya and signed a Nairobi Declaration, 2023. The Declaration, among others, calls on African Union Commission to develop an implementation framework and roadmap for this Declaration and to make Climate Change an AU theme for the [...]
20 September 2023 by Pascalinah Kabi ‘Mamalapane Hlabanyane was sterilised by Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital without her knowledge. Credit by Thabelo Monamane This investigative reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists. The government has sabotaged a legal bid aimed at exposing secret forced [...]
…investment promotion agency shields Nien Hsing from water pollution exposé 10 February 2023 by Pascalinah Kabi, Billy Ntaote, Sechaba Mokhethi This is the fourth part of a five-part investigation by MNN into how Lesotho’s textile factories operate with a disregard for labour laws and with apparent impunity as tests confirm [...]
8 February 2023 by Pascalinah Kabi This is the third part of a five-part investigation by MNN into how Lesotho’s textile factories operate with a disregard for labour laws and with apparent impunity as tests confirm that factories release toxic wastewater into water courses, including the Mohokare/Caledon River. This series is supported by [...]
24 December 2022 by Pascalinah Kabi Bertha Foundation Fellow Letšeng Diamonds, Lesotho’s most lucrative mine, has awarded contracts worth M6.7 billion to MGC Mining, a company that is ultimately owned by Prime Minister Sam Matekane. The value of the contracts was disclosed in a 16-page response by Letšeng to a number [...]
13 October 2022 by Pascalinah Kabi Bertha Foundation Fellow A confidential report that flags harmful levels of toxic mining effluent in Lesotho’s key rivers feeding the Lesotho Water Highlands Project (LWHP) has raised uncomfortable questions in the government and set the cat among the pigeons in cabinet, as ministries shift the blame [...]