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As the July 5 local council elections are drawing nearer, a low turn out of women to contest the elections has been observed. Although the factor responsible for this has not been identified -whether they are unwilling, poor, uneducated or marginalized, but it is expedient to ask if Salone women...
Posted to the web 20 May 2008 Amy Musgrave Johannesburg SOARING food prices will be under the spotlight at an African Union-New Partnership for Africa's Development (Nepad) workshop starting in Pretoria today. Organisers said on Friday that the high level pan-African regional workshop would...
By Greta ThomasIn Lesotho, Boleloa Falten has just turned 30. It’s a milestone birthday in anyone’s book, but for Boleloa it has even more significance.Back in 1999 when she was 21, Boleloa learned she was HIV positive and that she had just thirty days to live.Thirty days to live… “Get your...
The provincial Nelson Mandela Children's Fund Youth in Parliament series kicks off in Johannesburg today. The series will involve nine provincial Youth in Parliament forums. Eight Southern African countries including Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Namibia will also...
Posted to the web 17 May 2008 Aileen Kwa Geneva The fate of the world's oldest customs union, the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), is hanging in the balance as a result of the economic partnership agreements that most SACU countries have signed with the European Union (EU). Some in the SACU...
Posted: Saturday, May 17, 2008, 7:26 (BST) In Lesotho, South Africa and many other African countries, devices that restrict consumers to only use water that they have paid for in advance are being promoted as a way to fund better water infrastructure. A problematic approach, church water experts...
DIVERSIFIED minerals explorer Thabex planned to accumulate at least 5000 carats of diamonds from its Kolo kimberlite property in Lesotho over the next six months before taking a decision on whether to take the next step, CEO Marius Welthagen said yesterday.
TWO African youth workers had a night to remember when they watched their first Shakespeare performance at the region's oldest theatre. Thembisa Xana and Tsepiso Taoanai teach drama and literature to some of the world's poorest children in Lesotho, in Africa, but had never seen a Shakespeare play...
A two-day conference on water issues in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which opened Wednesday in Maseru, Lesotho, has seen representatives of government, civil society, the private sector, donors and other groups discuss the likely effects of climate change on development in...
The Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA) has slapped broadcasters with a seven-fold license fee hike. The LCA sent invoices to radio stations with new licence fees, with a shocking US$3000 annual fee, up from US$400. The move has shocked the broadcasters, especially private media outlets, which...
