May 11 - 17 2023 N E W S W I T H O U T F E A R O R FAV O U R

Vol 16 Issue 6 M7.00 R 10.00

Gvt revives draconian snooping law — page 4 IEC rejects criticism over M3.1 million tender — page 5

MATHIBELI SAM
Mokhothu. Matekane.

Gvt, opposition deadlock

over reforms
As PM Matekane insists on revisiting the Omnibus Constitutional Bill . . .
While opposition wants it to be passed in full as originally crafted . . .
Gvt digs in and accuses the opposition of stubbornness . . .
Vows opposition won’t dictate the reforms . . .
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Bongiwe Zihlangu &

Gvt, opposition deadlock

Marafaele Mohloboli

T
HE much-delayed reforms pro-
cess seems set for more pro-
longed delays to the chagrin of

over reforms
many who want the process finalised
to foster long term political stability
in Lesotho.
The Southern African Develop-
ment Community (SADC) has repeat-
edly tried to nudge Lesotho into com-
pleting the reforms process initiated
in 2016 but to no avail. as PM Matekane insists on revisiting the Omnibus Constitutional Bill . . .
The process is now likely to stall
more after the coalition government while opposition wants it to be passed in full as originally crafted . . .
of Prime Minister Sam Matekane
and the opposition deadlocked this gvt digs in and accuses the opposition of stubbornness . . .
week over how the process should
unfold.
Mr Matekane met opposition par-
vows opposition won’t be allowed to dictate the reforms process . . .
ties on Monday and explained his
intentions to revisit and reconfigure cess as “their own”. dressing exercises by the
the Omnibus Constitutional Bill. The “Their demands are unreasona- premier.
Bill anchors most of the legal, consti- ble…They seem to be forgetting that Mr Tau said the prime
tutional and security sector reforms they are not the only stakeholders…. minister would contin-
meant to stop the bastardisation and This process is for the whole nation. ue meeting other stake-
adulteration of key institutions by Every Mosotho is a stakeholder….,” holders before convening
politicians to serve their narrow self- Mr Tau said. a key multistakeholder
ish interests. Mr Tau sounded ominously meeting with all and sun-
Mr Matekane wants the Omnibus frustrated after Prime Minister dry.
Bill to be demarcated into three parts Matekane’s meeting with the oppo- Mr Mokhothu accused Mr
to deal separately with reforms that sition at the ‘Manthabiseng Conven- Matekane of continuously acting
require a simple parliamentary ma- NTHOMENG
tion Centre failed to produce fruitful in bad faith. He said the opposition
jority for approval, those that need Majara. results this week. had written to the prime minister af-
a two thirds majority and those that In the closed meeting both the PM ter their February meeting outlining
will be given effect by a national ref- and the opposition stuck to their a number of concerns. The PM is LIMPHO
erendum. guns. yet to respond and that was Tau.
Mr Matekane has cited some Mr Mokhothu told the Lesotho disheartening.
technical reasons for preferring Times the opposition would not “In the letter, among
that approach. But the opposi- budge in its demands. In fact, others we advised the
tion has since accused him of he said, they had already sub- prime minister to
“cherry-picking” and pushing mitted a motion to the National prioritise and ex-
reforms that suits his agenda Assembly proposing the reviv- pedite the pro-
of entrenching his position. al and passage of the Omnibus cess and pass
They say his single consum- Bill without changes. the Omnibus
ing obsession is to avoid being “If the government rejects Bill at the stage
ousted in a vote of no confi- our motion, then we will it was when the life of the 10th Par- Bill.
dence. Lesotho’s notoriously know that they are not in- liament ceased,” Mr Mokhothu said. For his part, SR leader Teboho Mo-
unstable political environ- terested in the reforms.,” “Funny enough, in the meeting on japela said, “there was a letter writ-
ment has ensured that no govern- has been one of the reasons of peren- he said, suggesting the opposition Monday, the prime minister told us ten in February clearly stating the
ment has served a full five-year term nial instability in Lesotho. would also dig in when the govern- that he did not know about the let- grievances of the opposition and it
since 2012. The opposition accuses Mr ment tries to move with its piecemeal ter as he had not seen it, promising was never responded to, which then
The opposition is demanding the Matekane of “cherry-picking” the approach. The opposition won’t to study its contents and revert later. became a stumbling block”. “
revival and passage of the Omnibus reforms to implement those that fa- cooperate when it comes to those It is weird though, that while the PM “And the pulling out of certain
Bill without any reconfiguration. vour him. It cites the government’s measures requiring a two thirds said he knew nothing about the let- sections of the Omnibus Bill to use
It wants it resuscitated and passed recent decision to revise and pass the majority to pass. Mr Matekane’s co- ter, his deputy (Deputy Prime Minis- for their convenience, is doing more
from the stage it was when term National Assembly Electoral Amend- alition only commands a simple ma- ter Nthomeng Majara) said she had damage than good. The premier
of the last 10th parliament ceased ment Bill, 2022, that forbids floor jority of 66 MPs in the 120-member an idea of the letter because Minister should be aware that the opposition
ahead of the October 2022 general crossing for at least three years after National Assembly. in the Prime Minister’s Office, Lim- is not here to fight him but to give
elections. any election. The passage of that law The government is clearly not im- pho Tau, had said that he had such a him support. Therefore, he really
In fact, then Prime Minister has effectively derailed opposition pressed. letter in his office.” needs to flank himself with people
Moeketsi Majoro declared a state of plans to mobilise for a vote of no con- “The opposition are not the only He added: “We were shocked by who will advise him with all honesty
emergency last year to justify recall- fidence against Mr Matekane. stakeholders. There are so many oth- this, it is all disheartening….” because as is, he is ill advised,” Adv
ing the 10th parliament to approve Democratic Congress leader, er stakeholders,” Mr Tau said. Still Mr Mokhothu vowed the op- Mojapela said.
the Omnibus Bill and finalise the re- Mathibeli Mokhothu, who is also the “We cannot allow the opposition position would not move an inch “We have made it clear that unless
forms process. However, the Consti- official leader of the opposition in to dictate and determine the whole from its the position that the Omni- he changes his approach and puts
tutional Court nullified that process parliament, said yesterday the op- process about how to take the re- bus Bill be passed without any alter- Basotho’s interests before everything
and the approval of the Bill, saying position’s closed-door meeting with forms forward. ations. else, he will be faced with the full
the former premier had acted illegal- Mr Matekane this week had been a “Other than the opposition, there “It is a waste of time to want to dis- might of the opposition. I want to
ly in declaring a state of emergency. damp squib. They would not support are so many other stakeholders. We mantle that Bill. I suspect that they think that he has heard us because
The failure by the 10th parliament the prime minister’s piecemeal ap- will get input from all these other want to remove clauses that they we were very frank with him and
to do its work and approve laws proach to reforms. They were also stakeholders and the government don’t find to be in their favour, such told him everything in his face.”
could not justify a state of emergen- fiercely opposed to the reconfigura- will advise itself on how to deal with as those that would bar them from BCM leader, Tsépo Lipholo,
cy declaration. Instead, any laws not tion of the Omnibus Bill as recom- this matter.” expelling civil servants as and when mocked Mr Matekane for “lacking
approved at the dissolution of a Par- mended by the premier. Playing party politics was not in they wish….,” Mr Mokhothu said. in strategy” to take the reforms for-
liament should become the business Minister in the Prime Minister’s of- the interest of moving forward with The DC leader said as far as he ward.
of the next elected parliament, the fice, Limpho Tau, on the other hand, the reforms. The opposition must not was concerned, the government had “It was quite funny to see that
Constitutional Court had reasoned. accused the opposition of stiff stub- create an unnecessary stalemate, he absolutely no tangible reasons to re- ntate Matekane had just come to tell
The opposition insists the Omni- bornness, telling the Lesotho Times said. ject the opposition’s request that the us how he wants the reforms to be
bus Bill must now be brought back yesterday that the opposition were “There are other external stake- Omnibus Bill be revived and passed handled. He wanted his way only.
in parliament and passed in full. The merely being spoilers. holders in the international commu- as is. His approach seems to be that ‘it’s
opposition believes that once ap- Defending the prime minister’s nity that have invested heavily in “Let us not forget that the same my way or the highway’….That is
proved, the Omnibus Bill will curtail decision to revisit and split the Omni- Lesotho’s reforms. So, we should not Omnibus Bill, made history in Leso- wrong,” Dr Lipholo said.
Mr Matekane’s powers. It will for in- bus Bill into three parts, Mr Tau said make this about the opposition or tho, when it was passed unanimous- “He surely just can’t come and tell
stance stop him from making unilat- the government would not allow the the government’s positions only but ly by both the National Assembly us that he has already had meetings
eral appointments to key state insti- opposition to dictate the manner and about all Basotho and others who and the Senate in the 10th Parlia- with other 13 groups and they have
tutions as processes of appointment substance of the reforms process. have helped us. ment. When the law fell off due to all agreed to what he is saying. That
envisaged under the Bill require The reforms were not only for “A number of international play- that technicality (raised by the Con- is undermining us as the opposition,
more consultative procedures. the opposition but for all Basotho, ers have funded this reforms pro- stitutional Court), it had already gar- and we are not going to let him get
The opposition has already taken he said. All this bickering points to cess. Let us show them respect by nered the support of both houses of away with it. We had to chide him
umbrage with Mr Matekane’s deci- a stalemate which is only likely to stopping unnecessary bickering,” Mr parliament. It is not every day that like a small child because he doesn’t
sion to make appointments to key prolong the reforms process. Even Tau urged. laws get the support of all, but be- seem to get the seriousness of the
posts like the office of the director though the prime minister had He said SADC had already warned cause the Omnibus Bill had been ex- whole process.
general of the Directorate on Corrup- promised to expedite the reforms parties in Lesotho to avoid taking ac- tensively worked on by all of us from “They don’t have numbers but
tion and Economic Offences (DCEO) process during the campaign for the tions that hindered the reforms. The inception, it was approved by all. still insist to do things as they please.
and office of the Auditor General. Mr October 2022 elections, it seems there country now risked sanctions if it did “But these people now want to That’s unhelpful because we are not
Matekane will soon have the oppor- is no longer any incentive for him to not complete the reforms. spoil the progress we had already going to give them our support when
tunity to appoint a new Commission- push to conclude a reforms process “They (SADC) actually said that made by throwing the spanner in the voting in parliament. So many things
er of Police if the hapless Holomo that may curtail his own power. there would be sanctions imposed works. That’s wrong,” Mr Mokhothu have been left out, including the issue
Molibeli is sent on leave pending his Mr Tau urged the opposition to on us. So, as people become firm on said. of the conquered territory (by South
retirement next year. avoid “stubbornly sticking” to their what they take to be their stances, Leaders of the Basotho National Africa), which he’s made clear that he
The opposition insists that all key demands that the Omnibus Bill be they must also consider all these oth- Party (BNP), Socialist Revolutionar- is not even going to try and tackle.”
appointments should wait the com- passed as is and instead support the er dimensions,” Mr Tau warned. ies (SR), Popular Front for Democra- Dr Lipholo is leading a crusade to
pletion of the reforms process and government’s proposal for a phased Mr Matekane’s meeting this week cy (PFD), Basotho Action Party (BAP), get Lesotho to try and reclaim land
adoption of new criteria of appoint- approach.Dismissing the opposition was his second with the opposition Basotho Covenant Movement (BCM) that he claims was stolen by South
ments to key state positions. Such leaders as “a selfish bunch who think over the reforms. Their first meet- and the All Basotho Convention Africa. It appears he will seemingly
criteria are envisaged to ensure that Lesotho’s reforms revolve around ing was in February 2023. The op- (ABC), form part of the opposition fight that fruitless ‘battle’ on his own.
key offices of state are not politicised. them” he urged opposition parties to position has scorned both meetings, leadership in parliament opposed to Not many serious people believe it is
The politicisation of key state offices avoid appropriating the reforms pro- saying they appear to be just window the reconfiguration of the Omnibus a battle worth pursuing.
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4 News
Mohalenyane Phakela
T
HE government has revived a
draconian snooping law that
empowers the state to monitor
the private communications of citi-
zens.
But civic groups remain fiercely
opposed to the proposed Computer
Crimes and Cyber Security Bill, 2022,
with the Transformation Resource
Centre (TRC) leading the charge.
It has taken its fight all the way to
the African Commission on Human
and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) warn-
ing that the law will curtail many
fundamental freedoms and empow-
er the state to engage in unmitigated
intrusion into the lives of citizens.
The civic group participated at the
75th Ordinary Session of the ACHPR
in Banjul, Gambia, last week. It urged
the ACHPR to work hard to implore
Lesotho to drop the law as it infringes
upon several constitutional rights of
Basotho.
But the government seems hell
bent on pushing through with the
Bill with the Minister of Information,
Communications, Science, Technol-
ogy and Innovation Nthati Moorosi,
this week filing a notice to re-intro-
duce the Bill in parliament and en-
sure its finalisation into law.
“This Honourable House resolves
to reinstate the Computer Crimes
and Cyber Security Bill 2022 at the
stage it had reached before the dis-
solution of the 10th Parliament pur-
suant to Standing Order No. 105 (B),”
states the minister’s parliamentary
notice this week.
The Bill was first tabled by former
Communications, Science and Tech-
nology minister, Keketso Sello, in
March 2021. It was later gazetted in
June the same year.
It caused an outcry from different
stakeholders because of the draconi-
an powers it gave to the government,
KEKETSO Sello.
Gvt revives draconian
snooping law
amid fierce opposition from
society . . .
civic groups warn law will
decimate constitutional
rights . . .
via the Lesotho Communications
Authority (LCA), to monitor private
communications of citizens. It was
subsequently withdrawn to allow for
more consultations but is now being
reinstated.
The Computer Crimes and Cyber
Security Bill seeks to empower the
state to fully monitor cyberspace, de-
fine cybercrimes and prescribe pen-
alties that include fines and lengthy
prison sentences.
It will establish a central database
with full details of citizens, to be run
and monitored by the government.
Not only will citizens, including visi-
tors, be required to register their sim
cards — in terms of the original ver-
sion of the Bill — they would also be
Lesotho Times May 11 - 17 2023
required to register their communi-
cation devices as well as store their
biometrics in the database.
The central database will be estab-
lished and maintained by the LCA
and it “shall be the property of the
government of Lesotho”.
“The database shall provide a plat-
form for the central processing and
storage of subscribers’ information.
The database shall be segregated
across network services in such a
manner as to ensure easy access to
data by authorised persons in re-
spect of subscribers’ information,”
the original version of the proposed
law had stated.
Subscribers would not only reg-
ister their SIM cards; they must
also be required to register their
mobile devices including cell
phones, tablets, iPads and
any other mobile device
which can take a SIM card.
It remains to be seen
whether any major revi-
sions will be affected to
give the Bill a human
face.
Several civic
groups do not seem
to think so. They
believe it must be
wholly expunged
or at least get dras-
tically revised.
Advocate Mok-
itimi Tšosane
— a Public In-
terest Litigation
and Human
Rights Officer
at the TRC —
addressed the NTHATI Moorosi.
ACHPR’s 75th
session on be-
half of Lesotho’s
civic groups. cure to operate to play its watchdog included among its highest purposes
Adv Mokitimi urged the ACHPR role effectively. Any attempts to mon- the protection of freedom of expres-
to encourage the government of itor communications would stifle the sion and access to information, right
Lesotho to review and rework the role of the media, Adv Mokitimi said. to privacy, freedom from arbitrary
Bill, considering all the concerns of Adv Mokitimi further told the search and seizure, right to fair trial,
stakeholders in both the public and ACHPR that Lesotho was sovereign and freedom from cruel and inhu-
private sectors. state which was governed through mane punishment.
Advocate Mokitimi condemned a Constitution meant to protect peo- “As we celebrate 30 years of the
the law for undermining the rights ple’s rights. He chronicled Lesotho’s democratic constitution, it is with
to privacy, freedom from arbitrary history from a dictatorship to a con- great concern that there is lurking
search and seizure of property, free- stitutional monarchy, which put fun- in our midst, this Computer Crimes
dom of expression and access to in- damental freedoms at the pinnacle and Cybersecurity Bill which has
formation, and right to a fair trial. of governance. elements that justify overreach of
He accused the government of “Following the transition from the enforcement powers suffocating the
seeking to delete entirely basic free- two autocratic and military regimes very essence of a responsive democ-
doms enshrined in the constitution in 1993, the Kingdom of Lesotho racy: freedom of expression and
and shrinking the civic, media, and adopted and reinstated the consti- speech and the right to be free from
political spaces for citizens. tution which had been suspended intrusions and interference by the
He urged the ACHPR to implore Le- in 1970. Under section 1 of the Con- state….
sotho to ensure that the cybersecuri- stitution, Lesotho is declared a sov- “In the Bill, the government risks
ty law was informed by the ACHPR’s ereign constitutional democracy…. excluding the general public from the
very own declarations on freedom Lesotho’s constitutional democracy greater information society in this in-
of expression and access to informa- reflects the paramount importance formation era. The Bill encompasses
tion which recognised the internet of human dignity and the worth and sections meant to undermine and
as a right. It was also important to value of each individual. Constitu- erode the right to privacy, freedom
ensure that Lesotho’s law complied tional democracy includes among from arbitrary search and seizure of
with the African Union Convention its highest purposes the protection of property, freedom of expression and
on Cyber Security and Personal Data freedom of conscience and freedom access to information, and right to a
Protection as per the continental of expression. fair trial. These provisions have the
body’s convention adopted in Mala- “Antithetic to the previous author- potential to shrink the civic, media,
bo, Equatorial Guinea. itarian regimes, among other things and political spaces,” Adv Mokitimi
The media should be free and se- the new democratic dispensation lamented.
May 11 - 17 2023 Lesotho Times News 5

IEC rejects criticism over M3.1 million tender

Staff Reporters
T
HE Independent Electoral Commission
(IEC) has rejected accusations that it de-
railed a locally owned company it con-
tracted to supply T-shirts for staff manning the
October 2022 general elections.
The company, Print Nest Printers and Sta-
tionery, has since sued the IEC to force the elec-
toral body to accept the M3,1 million worth of
T-shirts and use the uniform for the local gov-
ernment elections due later this year.
The company argues that despite its late de-
livery of the consignment of 22 000 branded
T-shirts, its contract with the IEC was never
officially terminated. The IEC was thus still
bound by the contract and should accept the
consignment and pay the M3.1 million contract
value.
Print Nest had delivered the consignment on
5 October 2022, just two days before balloting
opened on 7 October 2022. It insists the IEC
insists that local company failed to supply and has
no obligation to pay it for a failed deal . . .
could still have taken delivery and distributed
the T-shirts to polling stations before balloting.
The IEC says that was practically impossible.
Print Nest’s managing director, Azael Ranya-
li, had escalated the dispute with the IEC to the
Public Procurement Advisory Division (PPAD)
in the Ministry of Finance found in his favour.
Still, he says the IEC’s Director of Elections,
Mphaiphele Maqutu, had refused to honour
the contract. Mr Ranyali implies that Advocate
Maqutu was being vindictive and not support-
ive of a Basotho owned company. He claims he
was on the verge of losing a house, which he
had pledged to Post Bank as collateral for a loan
to bankroll the tender, as well as M360 000 cash
he had deposited with the bank for the same
reason.
Mr Ranyali attaches a PPAD opinion by its
director, Likotsi Leseli, which criticised Advo-
cate Maqutu’s decision to refuse to accept the
consignment after a “short” delivery delay by
Print Nest.
However, Advocate Maqutu has furiously
rejected Mr Ranyali’s accusations in his an-
swering affidavit. Advocate Maqutu, who is
effectively the chief executive officer of the IEC,
explains in detail how he had gone out of his
way to try and help Mr Ranyali fulfil the con-
tract by giving him several extensions.
Still Mr Ranyali, who claims the order was
delayed by the problem of constant load shed-
ding in South Africa which slowed production,
had failed to meet the deadlines.
In his affidavit Advocate Maqutu, explains
that the contract with Mr Ranyali’s Print Nest
came into effect on 09 September, 2022, and
subsisted until 22 September, 2022.
“Applicant was contractually obligated to
deliver the voting uniform on or before 22 Sep-
tember, 2022; the applicant company failed to
comply with its obligation to deliver the voting
uniform in line with the agreement of the par-
ties,” Advocate Maqutu states in his affidavit.
Advocate Maqutu then explains how Print
Nest had written to the IEC on 20 September,
seeking an ‘amendment of delivery dates to on
Continues on page 10 . . .
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planters correctly.

Matekane launches winter cropping He further noted that Basotho

were also not schooled on the usage
of pesticides to control weeds and
pests, and tended to delay harvest-

season amidst pomp & fanfare ing their food, which usually led
to potential harvests rotting in the
fields.
“These are some of the things
Bongiwe Zihlangu & that we are here to school you on
Seithati Mphatsoane today. Our fervent hope is that
when we leave this place, it will

I
T was all pomp and fanfare yes-
terday at Ha-Manama, Kolon-
yama, Leribe, as Prime Minister
Sam Matekane launched the winter
cropping season in style.
He used a sophisticated tractor
drawn plough to turn the soil in
contrast to the traditional stand-
ards of using horses or cattle drawn
ploughs.
Mr Matekane hopped onto the
tractor and drove it himself amidst
cheers by attendees and other
bystanders who took videos and
photos. The premier demonstrated
how to use the tractor under the
guard of heavily armed uniformed
soldiers.
As the premier ploughed the
Ha-Manama fields, a total of 56
red and blue tractors, to be used in
ploughing 1564 hectares of fields
at Kolonyama, and combined har-
vesters, were parked nearby in a
straight-line glistering under the
bright winter sun. This was proba-
bly a way to send a clear message
that Mr Matekane’s government is
intent on keeping its word to boost
agriculture and improve food pro-
duction in Lesotho.
The government had allocated a
whopping M1.1 billion for the agri-
culture sector for food production
in the 2023/24 budget, demonstrat-
ing its commitment to boost the
sector. The figure represents the
largest amount ever allocated to the
agric sector.
The launch of the winter crop-
ping season comes hot on the heels
of Minister of Agriculture, Food Se-
THE tractors in display during the launch of the winter cropping season.
curity and Nutrition, Thabo Mofosi’s
plea to Basotho farmers last week,
to plant wheat in their numbers this
winter season in pursuit of food se-
curity. In his address, Mr Matekane
said previous governments had
allocated millions of maloti to the
agriculture sector but with no clear
dividends for the country. Basotho
continued to live in hunger and ab-
ject poverty. He was out to change
that, he vowed.
He said he had given agriculture
minister, Mr Mofosi, the tough task
of “…. attaining sustainable food
production for Basotho and eco-
nomic growth through agriculture”.
He further urged farmers and all
other stakeholders to hold hands
towards the realisation of a food se-
cure Lesotho.
“It is our wish… to ensure that
our fields are taken care of and
protected and that all arable land is
ploughed. We are here at Ha-Mana-
ma today, where government, field
owners, hawkers of agriculture pro-
duce, manufacturers and dealers of
all equipment and inputs; the police
and army, as well as commercial
banks have come together to work
towards improved food production
and security in the country,” Mr
Matekane said.
“We are here to demonstrate how
farming should be approached in
the interests of improved harvest.
Our wish this year is to produce
wheat, and this means we don’t ex-
pect to harvest anything less than
4694 tons here at Ha-Manama.”
Mr Matekane said some of the
impediments to producing healthy
harvests across all crop species,
included failure to choose fertile
arable land, inability to assess soil
quality, choosing wrong seeds for
the soil as well as the incapacity to
use advanced agricultural machin-
ery, assess depths at which soil is
turned, and not setting ploughs and
be with the understanding that we
must have a standard to adhere to,
especially in light of climate change
which affects crops negatively,” Mr
Matekane said.
“In order to improve the School
Feeding program, the ministries of
agriculture and education are going
to devise a joint strategy of rolling
out the program at village level.
Our journey begins here, today, and
we will be taking along with us the
country’s agricultural colleges.
“Coming to block farming, I must
say that it is important for farmers
to enter into such, as it expedites
work on the fields and guarantees
bumper harvests. Block farming is
important especially when it comes
to the utilisation of agricultural ma-
chinery such as combine harvesters
for wheat, as those machines can
work in one place at a time.”
The government, Premier
Matekane further noted, continued
to subsidise inputs such as seeds
by 70 percent and fertiliser by 80
percent, a decision he described as
the government’s initiative to meet
farmers halfway. Meanwhile, last
week Mr Mofosi said his ministry
had come up with a three-legged
working strategy involving gov-
ernment, the private sector, and
commercial banks, to support and
finance agriculture.
Mr Mofosi said they were already
in negotiations with commercial
banks to offer affordable loans to
farmers. He urged the private sec-
tor to help farmers with more so-
phisticated machinery.

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Mohalenyane Phakela

A
LLEGED fraud mastermind, Lehlo-
honolo Selate, can loosely be termed as
Selate: Lesotho’s very
own Thabo Bester
Lesotho’s very own Thabo Bester based
on his very chequered alleged criminal re-
cord. Selate has allegedly stolen millions from
the government and different other entities
since 2012 until 2021 when he was incarcer-
ated.
So far, the police investigations reveal that
Selate has stolen over M100 million from the
government and other organisations through
his accounting and forgery skills.
He made a brief court appearance before
Senior Resident Magistrate Thamae Thamae
on Tuesday for a routine remand in connec-
tion with the M460 000 he allegedly defrauded
Standard Lesotho Bank in 2018. He was or-
dered to reappear before the same court on
23 May 2023.
He remains in remand prison while await-
ing the outcome of his bail petition which is
still pending before the High Court.
Bester is a notorious South African con-
victed criminal who escaped from Mangaung
prison after faking his death in his prison cell
in 2022. He was rearrested in Arusha, Tanza-
nia, on 8 April 2023 after being on the run for
almost a year. Bester was sentenced to life im-
prisonment in 2012 in connection with rape
and murder charges. He has also defrauded
many South Africans of millions through on-
line scams using pseudonyms Tom Motsepe
and TK Nkwana. Upon rearrest, it was dis-
covered Bester did not have a South African
passport.
Much like Bester, Selate has in the past fled
the country into South Africa without using a
passport. However, he has two official pass-
ports – one in which he appears to be born in
1981 and another which states he was born in
1984.
According to the police, Selate is a chartered
accountant. Apart from that he has done short
courses on document examination which
equipped him with skills to forge signatures.
He also has good knowledge of different pay-
ment systems.
The Lesotho Times investigations have re-
vealed that Selate’s crimes date back to 2012
when he worked for the Water and Sewage LEHLOHONOLO Selate.
Company (WASCO) as an auditor. There, he al-
legedly stole between M3 to M5 million at var-
ious intervals. He later resigned after investi- Selate made headlines in 2021 when he However, the police officers investigat- Mokone Bereng, businessmen Makhetha
gations were launched into his alleged thefts. appeared to be the mastermind of Lesotho’s ing his horde of alleged criminal cases were Thaele, Thabiso Mapetla and Qetella Abiel
In 2013 again, he allegedly defrauded M1 fraud of a lifetime. He allegedly mastermind- already waiting for him at a Lesotho Correc- Moletsane who had worked for Standard Le-
381 720 from a National Manpower Devel- ed the theft of over M50 million from the Min- tional Service (LCS) facility in Maseru when sotho Bank before.
opment Secretariat (NMDS) account held at istry of Finance. he was released on that afternoon of 31 March In the M50 million fraud case, he worked
Standard Lesotho Bank and again M400 000 It was for this M50 million case that he was 2023. They then rearrested him and hauled with Ministry of Finance employees to help
in 2017. arrested in November 2021 and has since then him before court for the new charge of de- him facilitate fraud by purporting to pay com-
In the same year, 2017, he allegedly stole been in remand prison. frauding Standard Lesotho Bank M460 000 in panies which they fraudulently presented as
M1 697 865 from the then Ministry of Forestry. He was charged alongside Ntseliseng Law- 2018. if they had provided services to different gov-
The following year he orchestrated another rence, Mookho Rafono, Tlali Mokoaleli, Tha- The lead investigator of Selate’s string of ernment ministries and departments.
hit on NMDS’s Standard Lesotho Bank account bang Nkoe, Hlabathe Phafoli, Thithili Makhe- cases, Senior Superintendent (SSP) Piti Khut- “He recruited many people to process the
of over M10 million – half of which was recov- si, Maqoboto Lepolesa, Fako Molefe and Kara- lang, told the Lesotho Times that their investi- transactions so that each of them would not
ered in South African banks. belo Makara. His two wives, whose names are gations had revealed that Selate was a “fraud realise that they were transferring huge
In 2018 he moved the scales higher and unknown to this publication, were later on expert”. amounts of monies to him. Each of these civil
allegedly stole M17 million from the govern- also roped in. “Here we are dealing with someone who is servants thought he or she was alone in a deal
ment’s sub-accountancy bank accounts held Selate tasted a few seconds of freedom on very intelligent. He is a chartered accountant with Selate and that was their best kept se-
at Standard Lesotho Bank. In the same year 31 March 2023 when Central Chief Magis- who majored in auditing. While investigat- cret. They only discovered they had all been
he allegedly made a false representation to trate ‘Matankiso Nthunya released him from ing him, we discovered that he also did short working for him after being arrested. They
Standard Lesotho Bank to solicit a M460 000 prison for being incarcerated for a long time courses on document or signature examina- did not steal the M50 million at once but in in-
loan through Omega Ntsoele and Lisemelo without being prosecuted. tion and payment systems among others,” SSP tervals and police investigations have this far
Tśoaeli whom he falsely represented as per- He had invoked section 4 of the Speedy Khutlang said. traced over M60 million instead of the pub-
manent employees of Limomonane Logistics Courts Trials Act on 31 March which states “We can say he is more of a handwriting ex- licly known M50 million. Investigations are
Company and who were eligible for loans. that a person shall not be in remand prison pert and therefore started by stealing through still ongoing and likely to reveal more stolen
Two years down the line, he allegedly for a period exceeding 60 days without trial. cheques in 2012. He adapted the technological public funds,” the highly placed prosecution
forged documents to defraud Standard Leso- This then forced Magistrate Nthunya to re- developments and then moved to digital pay- service source said.
tho Bank in Butha-Buthe of M1 381 700. lease him. ment systems as a form of defrauding mon- “Selate has been arrested numerous times
ies. He has several shell companies which he since he was first arrested for defrauding
moves money into before withdrawing it and WASCO in 2012. However, he has not been
transferring it to various personal accounts. tried for even a single case as the magistrates’
COMPANY NOTICE “He does not work alone but recruits in- court would inexplicably grant him repeated
ternal employees of institutions he intends to bails even though he would have failed to
THIS ADVERTISEMENT SERVES NOTICE THAT, rob. In most cases, if not all, majority of the obey previous bail conditions,” the prosecu-
monies stolen are transferred to South Afri- tion service source added, suggesting that
U-SAVE SUPERMARKETS (PTY) LTD – REG. NO I2003/432 Selate’s tentacles reach far and wide. “Apart
can banks. He also invested in property both
here at home and in South Africa. Well, I can- from that, his case files would mysteriously
HAS CHANGED ITS REGISTERED OFFICE ADDRESS AND PHYSICAL ADDRESS TO: not go into details of these cases, lest I tamper disappear, thus, crippling the cases from be-
2nd Floor Metropolitan Life Building, Kingsway, Maseru, 100, Lesotho. with evidence. I can safely say investigations ing prosecuted.
into his horde of crimes are still ongoing.” “He skipped the country in 2018 when his
To prove that Selate always has inside accomplices in the M17 million saga were
FOR ENQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT: people when orchestrating a hit, the Lesotho arrested and a warrant of arrest was issued
Times discovered from highly placed national against him. Selate was eventually arrested in
prosecution sources that in the M17 million November 2021 through a sting operation. Ms
PAMELA BUBB / BONGUMUSA KHUMALO saga, he is accused alongside former Stand- Lawrence had withdrawn some of the cash
ard Lesotho Bank employees who then gave from their illicit activities and was delivering
WEBBER NEWDIGATE ATTORNEYS him access to the government’s sub accounts it to Selate in Maputsoe… They had agreed
from which he made transfers to different that he would cross from South Africa via
TEL: 2231 3916 / 2231 5811 shell companies, purporting to pay them for Ficksburg, pick his loot and return…. But that
FAX: 2231 0066 providing services to the government. He also was not to be.” To be fair on Selate, he, un-
worked with a police officer whose main duty like Bester, has not been convicted of rape and
was to tamper with evidence or suppress the murder. In fact, he has not even been convict-
2ND FLOOR case should they be caught. There were also ed of any crime despite the myriad allegations
METROPOLITAN LIFE BUILDING business people who were supposed to use against him. But it seems when it comes to
KINGSWAY their companies to launder money. playing the system to avoid the clutches of jail
MASERU Those accomplices are ‘Mamothibeli Titi and making a living out of others, he certainly
LESOTHO and Joel Lerotholi who were then Standard knows his game. In that regard, he is the clos-
Lesotho Bank employees, Police Constable est, if not Lesotho’s very own Thabo Bester.
May 11 -17 2023 Lesotho Times Advertisement 9
10 News Lesotho Times May 11 - 17 2023

IEC rejects criticism over M3.1 million tender

. . . from page 5
or before 28th September, 2022.
“From the reading of the letter, it
becomes clear that applicant was
requesting an extension of the du-
ration of the contract to be (from) 9
September, 2022, to 28 September,
2022,” Advocate Maqutu states.
Still on the 26th of September,
MPAIPHELE
Maqutu.
2022, Print Nest wrote to the IEC ask-
ing for a further extension of 6 days.
“However, the 1st respondent re-
sponded in writing and informed the
applicant that delivery of the mer-
chandise should without failure be
made on 28 September, 2022,” Advo-
cate Maqutu states, while attaching
copies of all the exchanges between
the IEC and Print Nest.
“On the 28th September, 2022, ap-
plicant (Print Nest) wrote to 1st re-
spondent (IEC) acknowledging that
the contract as extended was due to
expire on that day. In the same letter,
applicant requested a further exten-
sion and proposed to deliver a cer-
tain portion of the merchandise on
29 September, 2022, and deliver the
remaining balance of the items on 4
October, 2022….,” Advocate Maqutu
submits.
The IEC opted to indulge Print
Nest despite its failures. It wrote to
the company on 29 September, 2022,
and informed Print Nest that it was
being given “an opportunity to sup-
ply and deliver all 22 000 t-shirts as
per the tender specifications and ap-
proved sample on or before Monday
the 3rd October, 2022’”.
The IEC had then informed Print
Nest that the ‘IEC will not accept
partial delivery or any delivery after
Monday 3rd October 2022’.
“Again, applicant failed to deliver
the 22 000 T-shirts on 3rd October,
2022, in breach of the agreement….,”
Advocate Maqutu states.
“Effectively, the contract between
applicant (Print Nest) and 1st re-
spondent (IEC) terminated by efflux-
ion of time on the 3rd of October,
2022, and applicant had not per-
formed under the contract.
“On 10 0ctober, 2022, applicant
(Print Nest) wrote to 1st respond-
ent (IEC) acknowledging that ap-
plicant had failed to perform under
the contract. In that letter, applicant
also requested 1st respondent (IEC)
to, despite breach of the contract by
applicant, accept the belated delivery
of the voting uniform and suggested
that the 1st respondent could utilise
that voting uniform during the 2023
local government elections; the re-
quest seemed to have been driven by
the pressure that applicant needed to
settle some bank loan……
“On 19 October, 2022, the 1st re-
spondent (IEC) replied in writing
to the applicant (Print Nest) and re-
minded the applicant that the con-
tract has terminated by effluxion of
time and that in any event, applicant
had failed to perform under the con-
tract and is guilty of breach of the
said contract. The 1st respondent
(IEC) went further and stated as fol-
lows (to Print Nest): ‘while we may
have compassion for your situation,
as the IEC we are unfortunately
bound by the Public Procurement
Laws of Lesotho and we do not have
the discretion to deviate from them
notwithstanding your unfortunate
circumstances that necessitated the
late delivery.’
Advocate Maqutu said he had
stated in further correspondence
that Print Nest’s suggestion that the
uniforms be used for local govern-
ment elections was untenable. The
procurement of the uniform had
specifically been in relation to the
2022 National Assembly Elections
with the specific branding to that ef-
fect. There was no scope to use the
uniform in any other elections and
the IEC regarded the whole saga as a
failed contract.
Advocate Maqutu acknowledges
that Print Nest had appealed to the
Ministry of Finance wherein Mr Le-
seli (acting for the Principal Secre-
tary of the Finance ministry) had in-
deed expressed the view that the IEC
had unreasonably terminated the
contract because the consignment
was delayed by only one day and that
applicant was not given first and sec-
ond warning before the contract was
terminated. “Given the facts narrat-
ed in the preceding paragraphs Mr
Leseli’s conclusions are flawed; the
contract terminated by effluxion of
time and applicant did not deliver as
required by the contract,” Advocate
Maqutu states. In any event, Mr Le-
seli had no authority or jurisdiction
to consider an appeal that is not re-
lated to the procurement process.
Advocate Maqutu also rejects sug-
gestions by Print Nest that the IEC
delayed in issuing logos to be printed
on the T-shirts, thereby causing the
company to delay its own production
processes. “That information was
available to him the moment he got
access to the tender document….,” he
states.
Delivering the T-shirts just two
days before the elections, meant that
the IEC would not have had ample
time to deliver the uniform to all
its staff at polling stations across
Lesotho, especially considering the
treacherous terrain which character-
ises the country. It would have forced
the electoral body to seek helicopter
and canoe service, as it is virtually
impossible to reach many places in
the country by car.
Advocate Maqutu’s very lucid affi-
davit is likely to leave egg on the face
of Mr Ranyali and his Print Nest. The
businessman seems to be axiomatic
of Basotho entrepreneurs who be-
lieve they have a birth right to be al-
located government tenders despite
their financial and technical where-
withal to deliver on projects.
Mr Ranyali’s seems to have now
exposed himself to questions about
how he won the tender in the first
place yet as it now seems, he did not
have the capacity to produce the T-
shirts locally, in this textile driven
economy, and had to subcontract to
a South African supplier?

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12 Leader
Comment
What a tragedy
T
HE all too important but much delayed reforms process
seems to have fallen victim to the whims and caprices of
our rapacious political class again.
This week the opposition leaders in parliament met with
Prime Minister Sam Matekane’s government for a consulta-
tive meeting conveniently titled Implementation of the Na-
tional Reforms Process, which sadly did not bear fruit as the
two sides, key stakeholders in the process, failed to agree on
a way forward.
It is disheartening, yet again, to realise that the government
and the opposition in parliament cannot agree on the direc-
tion of the critical reforms process simply because one side is
not willing to accommodate the other. It makes no sense that
the implementation of the reforms process has stalled again
simply because politicians are more interested in political
point scoring.
These are the very reforms that all parties politicked and
campaigned over in the run up to the October 7, 2022, general
elections. We all heard how most of these politicians prom-
ised to prioritise the reforms process once they assumed
government power. How soon things change? It seems the
reforms process is not that much of a priority any longer. In-
stead we are now subjected too political showboating by poli-
ticians more interested in defending their partisan interests.
Government says it wants to take the piecemeal approach
in the implementation of the reforms by splitting the all-en-
compassing Omnibus Constitutional Bill into three thematic
areas.
The Omnibus Bill had been unanimously approved by the
10th Parliament but the process of its passage was nullified by
the Constitutional Court.
The themes proposed by government, are namely laws that
require simple majority, those that need a two-thirds major-
ity and those that must be subjected to a referendum for ap-
proval
The government argues that it is in violation of the constitu-
tion of Lesotho, to submit to His Majesty the King, laws that
require a referendum before subjecting them to that process.
Government says it would rather hold the Omnibus Bill in
abeyance until after an actual referendum has been conduct-
ed. Simply put, the government’s argument is based on some
legal technicalities.
On the other hand, the opposition parties in parliament are
adamant that the Omnibus Bill must be revived and passed at
the stage it was when the life of the 10th Parliament ceased.
They further threaten to withhold their numbers and not sup-
port government when the time comes to pass Bills requiring
a two-thirds majority vote, as government does not have the
numbers to pass such laws on its own. It can only go as far
as passing simple majority laws, hence the opposition is dan-
gling its numbers in the government’s face. This has instead
become a tit for tat war.
Is that not tragic? Evidently the opposition is uncomfort-
able with allowing government to get away with dismantling
the Bill, probably because they suspect that should they cave
in, Mr Matekane and his cohorts could easily sneak into or re-
move from the Omnibus Bill, clauses that are not to their ad-
vantage. The sad reality about Lesotho is that most laws that
have been passed to date by successive parliaments, were
made to deal with individuals and sectorial interests, and not
in the interests of this nation. The Omnibus Bill is an excep-
tion. It tries to anchor the reforms process in a way that will
prove governance and hopefully foster stability in the end.
With that said, perhaps it is time for both government and
the opposition, to go on a journey of self-introspection, for
each party to stop being selfish and start honouring the prom-
ises made to Basotho ahead of last year’s polls.
Mr Matekane must know that when dealing with an oppo-
sition that has bargaining tools, he must be smart and stra-
tegic. He must know that while the opposition are behaving
like spoilt brats, they also have legitimate concerns. And as
the head of the government, the onus is on him to take the
opposition into his confidence and convince them of the ad-
vantages of buying whatever it is that he is selling. He must
continue reaching out to the opposition leadership to try and
establish a good rapport and understanding on how to push
the reforms.
The opposition also, must realise that while they might
think they have the upper hand, time has a way of stripping
people of their bargaining powers. It is never a good thing to
be inflexible in politics. As such, the opposition must use their
bargaining tools, not for their own political point scoring, but
for the good of Basotho to whom the reforms belong.
In a nutshell, government and the opposition must do away
with their arrogance. Basotho are expecting them to engage
each other earnestly and honestly because time is moving fast
with little progress recorded in completing the reforms. Key
stakeholders like the Southern African Development Com-
munity (SADC), development partners and the international
community who poured substantial funds to get the reforms
process off the ground, are watching with keen interest from
a distance as things unfold. They are inevitably enraged at
the slow pace of the reforms.
Both the government and the opposition must know that
when the patience of those who have been assisting wears
thin, there would be no way of regaining it. Lesotho’s politi-
cians have held this country hostage to their whims and ca-
prices for far too long. It is high time they started putting this
country and the interests of its poor citizens first. We don’t
hold our breaths, however. It seems the long-delayed reforms
process is now in for even more delays. How tragic.
Upcoming elections in Zimbabwe and DRC a
bellwether for SADC and African democracy
B
ETWEEN now and the end of 2024,
no fewer than 22 national elections
are scheduled in Africa, nine of
them in SADC nations. Election observ-
ers have served, and must continue to
serve, to prevent and mitigate violent
conflict and the abuse of the rights of
citizens to hold their rulers to account.
In the era of democratic decline, signs
of hope persist. One example in our re-
gion is the Electoral Support Network
– Southern Africa (ESN-SA) which com-
prises domestic civic organisations of the
16 SADC states.
Non-partisan observers must be al-
lowed to hold governments accountable
for holding periodic credible elections,
as prescribed by the African Charter for
Democracy, Elections and Governance.
Representatives of ESN-SA gathered
in Johannesburg from 20-21 April 2023,
with representatives of the Carter Cent-
er, to discuss the prospects for observing
the next election in Zimbabwe later this
year. No one was naïve. Several partici-
pants have undertaken to observe Zim-
babwean elections since the 1980s.
In 2013 I tried to get accreditation
for Carter Center observers, but it was
reportedly vetoed by the ruling party,
Zanu-PF. And most of us have seen the
recent investigative reporting by Al Ja-
zeera, in the new documentary series
Mafia Gold, about high-level internation-
al money laundering of Zimbabwean
gold sales for personal gain and to buy
electoral support for Zanu-PF.
ESN-SA believes the people of Zimba-
bwe and all other SADC nations deserve
the dignity and rights of all people eve-
rywhere, and that shared commitment
more than justifies the hard and some-
times dangerous work of monitoring
and assessing voting in Zimbabwe and
throughout the SADC region.
Between now and the end of 2024 in
Africa, no fewer than 22 national elec-
tions are scheduled, nine of them in
SADC nations. Two later this year are
Zimbabwe sometime in July/August and
the DRC in December. SADC country
votes in 2024 include Botswana, Mada-
gascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique,
Namibia and South Africa.
Similar regional groups have formed
elsewhere in Africa. Most face varying
degrees of political challenges nation-
ally, imposed by official electoral man-
agement bodies, often dominated by the
partisan interests of incumbent regimes.
Electoral principles and code of con-
duct
In 2005, a group of 23 international
observer groups – non-governmental,
governmental and multilateral, includ-
ing the African Union – came together at
the United Nations headquarters in New
York to approve a Declaration of Prin-
ciples and Code of Conduct for Interna-
John Stremlau
tional Election Observation. Since then,
the signatory groups have increased to
55.
And in 2010, the Global Network of
Domestic Election Monitors (GNDEM)
was formed with the encouragement
of, and associated with the international
observer groups. GNDEM currently com-
prises 251 member organisations in 89
countries and territories, and nine re-
gional networks with members in Africa,
Asia, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America
and the Caribbean, and the Middle East/
North Africa.
Domestic electoral monitoring groups
are increasingly potent and essential
in emergent civil societies so essential
for sustainable democracies of varying
types. But many still depend on foreign
donors.
SADC in many ways encompasses the
complexities of global electoral politics.
It contains a diversity of ethnic identi-
ties within and among its 16 states. All
SADC governments claim legitimacy and
authority rooted in the free will of their
people.
But regimes vary widely, from South
Africa’s relatively large population pledg-
ing allegiance to an advanced constitu-
tional democracy, to its small monarchi-
cal neighbour Eswatini, to the autocratic
democracy of Zimbabwe, and the barely
integrated resource-rich “state-nation” of
the DRC.
Yet all claim to be democracies and all
hold periodic national elections, subject
to some degree of domestic and interna-
tional observation.
When monitoring elections in SADC
nations, domestic and international ob-
servers now have several authoritative
standards to invoke as they negotiate
mutually acceptable terms with national
electoral management authorities.
The most immediate reference is their
own SADC Principles and Guidelines
Governing Democratic Elections that
were adopted by the SADC Summit in
Mauritius in 2004. Another more general
reference is the Guidelines for African
Union Electoral Observation and Moni-
toring Missions.
Election obligations and standards
Election obligations and standards
have been broadened and deepened
over the last three decades. A courageous
and resilient transnational community
of domestic and international election
monitors has emerged. Today they can
draw upon an extensive array of elec-
toral obligations and standards, based on
extensive research and analysis.
The Carter Center recently released
May 11 - 17 2023
online, and formally on 28 March in Lu-
saka, Zambia, the second edition of an
election assessment manual. The 332-
page manual, first published in 2014,
initially began as a 2006 project that
stitched together a global group of legal
scholars, representatives of internation-
al organisations and civic organisations
that shared a common belief that demo-
cratic elections as credible assessments
of citizen concerns could promote peace,
equality and human rights.
To do so, however, electoral obser-
vation, no less than the democracies it
seeks to sustain, must adapt to new re-
alities. Several notable ones are evident
in the second edition of Election Obliga-
tions and Standards. They include tech-
nological changes and access.
Many have been beneficial, others less
so. Social media and privacy issues are
vulnerable to mis- and disinformation.
Violence against women in politics has
escalated and proliferated along with
other threats to democracy — Covid,
corruption and climate change have ex-
acerbated inequality, poverty and unem-
ployment in many of Africa’s fledgling
democracies.
Election observers are human rights
defenders
A telling reminder of the rising risks to
election observers was a reiteration on
27 October 2022 of election observers as
human rights defenders, in a statement
that declared:
“Both national and international ob-
servers have reported a significant es-
calation in the severity and scale of at-
tacks against them, ranging from harass-
ment, false accusations, defamation and
threats; to infringement on their right
to free movement, detention, expulsion
and physical violence.”
Observers can, of course, only operate
once they have been accredited by a host
country’s electoral management body.
If successful, then they must be allowed
mutually agreed access and protections
from dangers cited by the UNHCR. Elec-
tion observers have served and must
continue to serve to prevent and miti-
gate violent conflict and the abuse of the
rights of citizens to hold their rulers to
account.
Bellwether for democracy
SADC can continue to serve as a bell-
wether of indigenous democratic gov-
ernance, abetted by domestic and inter-
national election observation. The first
and perhaps most important test of this
will occur before 1 August in Zimba-
bwe’s 2023 national election.
The second could also be a harbinger
for peaceful and productive national, re-
gional and even global cooperation and
development — December’s elections in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
— DM
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14 News
‘Marafaele Mohloboli
T
HE Media Institute of Southern Afri-
ca (MISA)- Lesotho Chapter has criti-
cised the Anglican Church in Lesotho
over its decision to drop popular current
affairs programmes on its ACL radio station
and suspend three prominent presenters
deemed to be anti-government.
Reverend Vicentia Kgabe, the head of the
Anglican diocese in Lesotho, had announced
the suspension of the programme as well as
their three presenters Messrs Sebuti Moy-
eye, Lebohang Maketa and Lebese Molati.
Rev Kgabe announced the decision on
May 5 2023, two days after Lesotho’s media
joined the rest of the world in commemo-
rating World Press Freedom Day. The day
is marked every 3 May to acknowledge the
role of a free Press in promoting democracy.
MISA said it was ironic and unfortunate
that the Anglican Church had taken the dra-
conian decision at a time the country and
the world were honouring the need for a
free and independent Press.
The RFP has nonetheless welcomed the
Anglican Church’s decision, accusing the
three presenters of unfairly demonising the
ruling party.
Bishop Kgabe announced that from Sat-
urday 6 May 2023, only Anglican Church re-
lated content would be broadcast on its sta-
tion, threatening to close the station down
completely if it ventured into non-church
related content.
The suspension of the three presenters fol-
lowed criticisms that they were anti-Prime
Minister Sam Matekane and were using the
current affairs programme to besmirch the
premier and his Revolution for Prosperity
(RFP).
One of the presenters, Mr Maketa, has
since resigned and confirmed his decision
to the Lesotho Times.
MISA-Lesotho said the suspension of the
three programmes and their presenters
amounted to blatant censorship and an at-
tack on free speech and the freedom of the
media.
MISA-Lesotho chairperson, Kananelo Bo-
loetse, said it was unacceptable to limit free
speech in this critical period of national re-
forms when Basotho should be engaged
in robust debates about the nature
of the country they want.
Reverend Kgabe an-
nounced that the board
of the radio station,
the church’s Diocesan
Council had resolved
to suspend all ACL Ra-
dio’s current affairs
programmes because
their presenters were
constantly attacking
the government.
Mr Maketa, a staunch
member of the Demo-
cratic Congress (DC), who
hosted a morning show
program called ‘Li theoha
kalana’ has since quit the
station. Messrs Moyeye,
who hosted the
‘Sika la thole,’
Lesotho Times May 11 - 17 2023
MISA blasts Anglican church over
cancellation of radio programmes
and suspension of presenters
but RFP welcomes the move, saying it was being
unfairly criticised by the presenters . . .
programme and Molati, who anchored the
‘Khotla’ programme, have been placed on
suspension.
An official at the station told the Lesotho
Times that Messrs Maketa, Moyeye and Mo-
lati had turned the RFP into their project of
derision using the church’s radio station.
They were constantly criticising the party in
an unprofessional and demeaning fashion,
the official said.
“They seem to question everything that
the government is doing, especially the
RFP leader and his cabinet. The three don’t
seem to have anything good to say about
this party and we know very well that they
are being used by the opposition. Several
complaints had been lodged against their
behaviour….,” the official said on condition
of anonymity because he is not authorised
to speak to the media.
“We respect the media, but then again,
can’t sit back and watch when known poli-
ticians masquerading as journalists are out
to destroy us. We had to use our powers to
defend our interests as a church.
On the criticism by Misa, the official said:
“Those who feel suppressed by this decision
should just take water and chill.”
Rev Kgabe said in her statement that the
three presenters had been asked to desist
from their “unprofessional behaviour”
but had not done so, thereby putting the
church’s name into ill repute.
“The Diocesan Council re-
solved that all current
affairs (programs)
would cease to be
broadcast with
immediate effect,
meaning that
the last pro-
LEBOHANG Maketa.
grammes were
on air for the
last time on For the next three months, Rev Kgabe to mind my other commitments, includ-
Friday 5 May said, the radio station would be undergoing ing being a Diocesan Council member… If
2023. The radio a restructuring process to ensure it promot- I had stayed on, I would be very conflicted
programmes ed the interests of the Anglican Diocese of because I also feel that the management (of
as of 6 May will Lesotho. the station) itself needs to be restructured,”
comprise only of If the station persisted in putting the Mr Maphalla said.
Anglican Church name of the Diocese into disrepute, it will be The station manager, Ms ’Mantolo Mo-
related programs closed down. The station had been set up by hale, could not be reached for comment.
and news,” she with the hard-earned monies of the faithful Mr Moyeye said he had nothing to say on
said. in the diocese. It should therefore serve the the matter because he was still undergoing
interests of the church, he said. training and getting paid and “nothing has
Rev Kgabe also announced the resigna- been communicated to me.”
tion of one radio station board member, Mr Maketa confirmed his resignation to
Sello Maphalla. Mr Maphalla however de- the Lesotho Times while Mr Molati said: “I
clined to state whether or not his decision have a lot to say but not now as I am still
to quit had been induced by the decision to trying to understand what is happening and
ban the programmes. the matter has not been communicated to
“I decided to resign be- me officially.”
cause I wouldn’t get my- RFP spokesperson Mokhethi Shelile, said
self to dwell on things while his party was not part of the church’s
that consumed my decision to axe the programmes and sus-
energy for no good pend the presenters, it stood “in full support
reason. I decided of the stance taken by the church”.
“As RFP we have been gravely
concerned about the manner in
KANANELO which the radio station has been
Boloetse. conducting itself when handling
government related issues, inclu-
sive of the station manager who
has given us an attitude each time
we presented our case.
It seemed like the church had some
hidden agenda against us,” Mr Shelile
said.
“All the same, we have nothing to do
with the decision to close or cut such
programmes. Needless to say, we stand
in full support of the stance taken by the
church. We don’t want
to censor the media.
We respect the inde-
pendence of the me-
dia, but also believe
in accurate and true
reporting of issues
without fear or fa-
vour.”
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Mamoth unveils opulent medical aid product

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South Africa’s maize haul for 2023, accord- Council on Higher Education Lesotho (CHE).
ing to the latest forecast from the govern- institutions.
ment’s Crop Estimates Committee (CEC), is • Should have a minimum of 10 years of experience at leadership
Botho University is a dynamic University implementing new positions performing the role of students’ data management,
expected to be just shy of 15.9 million tonnes, programmes that are new and relevant to the Country. The administration, assessments, quality assurance, Management
compared with 15.57 million tonnes in 2022. University’s mission is to provide quality education and produce Information Systems (MIS) and student support services.
In 2021 it reached 16.35 million tonnes. globally employable and entrepreneurial graduates.
This represents a trio on the trot of stout Main Responsibilities:
harvests in the face of challenges such as • Person will be responsible for all ERP systems such as student
power shortages and soaring input costs. 1. Senior Education Manager-Ref 23OVC009MSU information system, Management
The record maize crop in 2017 was 16.82 mil- • Information systems (MIS), Assessment management systems,

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lion tonnes. Location: Maseru, Lesotho Learning Management systems,
Dam levels have also reaped the rewards • IT infrastructure Management and Library Information systems
Help Lesotho alumni are invited to a reunion
Qualifications/Experience required:
of La Niña. According to the latest State of management.
• A minimum of Master/PhD Degree from a recognized University. • Shall be responsible for assessment administration and
the Dams report by the Department of Wa-
ter and Sanitation, four provinces — Mpu- • A minimum experience of 15 years in Administration, Teaching,
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percent. Limpopo, North West and Northern • Should have a sound understanding and experience of Quality • Overall administration of library services.
Cape are above the 80 percent mark, with Assurance and Quality Management Systems preferably ISO. • Overall administration of IT infrastructure.
Eastern Cape at 76.7 percent and Western

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• Should have experience in working for programme accreditation • Shall be responsible for academic support services for students.
Help
Cape Lesotho’s
relatively dry Leaders-in-Training
at 52.9 percent. (LIT) Program graduates are strong,
and implementation of required regulatory standards for tertiary
resilient critical thinkers who become peer-to-peer Institutions.
agents of change in their Skills and Competencies required:
communities. Food inflation receive life skills, leadership
Participants
The expected return of El Niño, especially if
itsupport
is intense,and
willprofessional development.
evaporate much of La Niña’s
• Should have experience
training,
for existing and new programmes
respectively.
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in reviewing and designing curriculum
psychosocial
•
•
•
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legacy at a time when food price inflation • Information systems management skills
Main Responsibilities: • Data management skills
should be slowing.
Program dates: 25 th
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• weeks)
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inflation has been galloping because of the
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Russia’s of Ukraine. Food inflation academic qualifications, relevant experience and general disposition.
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become
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during the period of disruption.
by example;
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ing wages and rising interest rates to contain English and Sesotho.
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folds and
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at:
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of El Niño. The first is that the last one, in(Lenyora House, opposite
Smart Palace
Exam, of Justice)
Blackboard etc.
2015-16 — with a “very strong” rating — was
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18 Katleho Markets Lesotho Times May 11 - 17 2023

Capital markets, a bridge to the other side supervision and enforcement.

Why Capital Markets?

Leonard Nyambuya ty, and Well-developed capital markets are a driver
of economic growth, and thereby yield posi-

C
APITAL markets match long-term in- • the nature and scale of the interventions tive effects on employment. There is a strong
vestments with long-term capital. They used by governments to support the economy correlation between capital market develop-
serve as a gauge for corporate perfor- which, while necessary, might have limited ment and economic growth. Capital markets
mance hence a market for corporate con- the viability of different capital markets solu- mobilise additional savings into the economy,
trol and a barometer for broader economic tions, at least in the short to medium term. making more capital available to companies,
growth. The main functions of capital markets which may then in turn create jobs and facili-
include economic growth, capital formation, That said, this does not alter the funda- cial instruments described above are sold by tate real-wage growth. At the same time, capi-
liquidity, savings and proper price discovery mental premise that it is important to develop their issuers (governments, companies, col- tal markets are associated with higher pro-
through enhanced market transparency. alternative finance mechanisms for key stra- lective investment schemes, special purpose ductivity levels as the allocation of resources
The COVID-19 pandemic, its aftermath, the tegic sectors. Rather, if anything, the need for vehicles) to the investors, and a secondary becomes more efficient — including through
current geopolitical tensions in eastern Eu- capital markets solutions is more critical than market, where already-issued securities are better information, mechanisms to control
rope and as the American­led order in place ever given the much more limited space that traded between investors. Securities can be good governance, and the provision of capital
since 1945 fragments and economic decou- governments —and potentially also banks issued via private placements or public offer- to innovative projects.
pling accelerates, all these have added to the — will have going forward to support new ings. Overall private placements are restricted On a micro-level, well-developed capital
already existing challenges to the develop- financing. Capital markets refer to a segment to institutional and other sophisticated inves- markets constitute an important source of
ment of capital markets in many countries. of the financial system aimed at channelling tors and have limited price disclosure and financing for corporations. For businesses
However, like any challenge they also created the savings of an economy to those in need of trading activity. that already enjoy access to banking finance,
a window of opportunity for countries to criti- capital. Securities issued under a public offering capital markets can provide an attractive al-
cally think of developing local capital markets. These transfers of capital are undertaken are accessible by all, including retail investors, ternative as they can give companies access to
through financial instruments and securities. and are traded on regulated markets with larger volumes of funding, longer maturities
For many developing economies these chal- These can include money market assets, sov- sufficient pre- and post-trade price transpar- and, potentially, better economic terms, thus
lenges have intensified as a result of: ereign and non-sovereign bonds, securitised ency. Capital markets rely on professional in- reducing overall funding costs.
• the deterioration in the macroeconomic en- assets, participations in collective investment termediaries, and require a series of market This funding can be a crucial source for
vironment, including the contraction of the schemes such as mutual funds, and company infrastructures, including trading platforms, companies seeking to expand their business.
economies, and larger fiscal deficits, equity. In contrast to deposits, investors bear clearing houses and central securities deposi- In addition, capital markets allow companies
the risk of such investments. Capital markets tories, and a capital markets-specific legal and to diversify their funding sources, which can
• reduced investor appetite due to uncertain- consist of a primary market, where the finan- regulatory framework backed by government become particularly critical in times of dis-
tress in the banking sector, as a retrenchment
in banks’ lending activities could leave compa-
The Examinations Council of Lesotho [ECoL] invites expressions of interest from nies without the financing needed to continue
suitably qualified local candidates for the following position; functioning.
Capital markets can also fund riskier and
more collateral-scarce businesses and activi-
DIRECTOR ties that would not traditionally be served by
the banking sector as they bring to the table
investors with higher risk profiles. Equity
– ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION markets in particular have been found to be
key to the financing of new businesses, par-
RESPONSIBLE TO : CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER ticularly those relying on intangibles, R&D
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT : 5 YEAR CONTRACT and human capital. In this way, capital mar-
kets can also support innovation. For gov-
ernments, the capital markets are a crucial
JOB OPPORTUNITY source to finance their fiscal deficits, including
expenditures for social services and job crea-
JOB SUMMARY: tion. As government bond markets deepen,
Under the general supervision of the Chief Executive Officer, the incumbent in this job is expected to assist the Council in their funding costs are likely to decrease as
achieving its vision and mission of providing quality assessments for the basic education system. The Director Assessment and well. From the investors’ perspective, capital
Evaluation coordinates all institutional assessment functions; manages the development, maintenance, and evaluation of markets offer investment opportunities and
national assessments, public examinations, assessment packages, and review processes. The Director is responsible for the risk management tools. First, capital markets
continuous research and evaluation to improve credible and relevant assessments conducted by ECoL. can offer more attractive investing opportuni-
The Director is further accountable for the overall planning, budgeting, organising and coordinating ECoL assessment activities. ties in terms of their return than bank depos-
its, albeit with a higher risk.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Further, if a wide range of instruments ex-
1. Development of Policies & Procedures 4. Question Paper Production ist, then capital markets can provide investors
• Provides direction, leadership and advice to the ECoL, Assessment • Oversees question paper production for different assessments with a diversified portfolio, which contrib-
and Evaluation staff on the design, implementation and maintenance (National Assessment, End of Level Tests and Continuous utes to risk management. This is of particular
of basic education assessment processes. Assessment Packages).
importance to pension funds and insurance
• Develops policies and other relevant standards in the production of • Oversees item development and improvement.
assessment products. • Oversees the development of quality question papers. companies because higher rates of return
• Develops and implements a strategy for continuous improvement of • Oversees the timely development of assessment manuscripts. are necessary to ensure an adequate pay-out
the Assessment and Evaluation department. • Supervises the moderation of assessment manuscripts. in the future. Finally, well-developed capital
• Ensures the security of manuscripts.
2. Maintenance of Standards • Coordinates the typesetting of manuscripts to ensure high-quality
markets also provide risk management tools
• Determines performance standards for the Assessment and products. through the derivatives markets.
Evaluation Standards staff and measures their performance • Prepares and submits assessment reports. Besides economic growth, well-regulated
accordingly. • Develops and coordinates ECoL item bank and e-marking systems. and supervised capital markets may enhance
• Links ECoL with the National Curriculum Development Centre on
curriculum and assessment activities. 5. Research financial stability. Domestic capital markets
• Safeguards the performance standards and ensures they are • Designs a framework for research to support assessment,
provide access to long-term, local currency
upheld over time. accreditation and benchmarking. financing that helps companies, governments
• Ensures that marking and grading standards are maintained from • Coordinates the administration of various standardised national and investors to manage inflation, foreign ex-
year to year.
• Supervises and holds staff under his/her supervision accountable.
assessment, instruments and ensure that reports and results are change risks and maturity mismatches. Fur-
disseminated institution-wide.
• Supervises the technical aspect of national assessment surveys, ther, there is empirical evidence that equity
3. Planning & Reporting including the design of databases, data collection and analysis of markets can reduce corporate leverage and
• Oversees and leads annual departmental budgeting and planning. data related to the assessment plan. curb insolvency risks, while bond markets can
• Reports regularly on all activities related to Assessment and • Coordinates and works with stakeholders in education to provide
Evaluation department.
serve as a “spare tyre” in times of banking dis-
researched information for developing sustainable education
• Supports ECoL with all relevant data to inform the Ministry of interventions. tress. Yet this is not to say that capital markets
Education about the required improvements for the quality of basic • Provides examination results analysis bi-annually. come without risk.
education assessments in Lesotho. For example, any new financial instrument
• Aligns the departmental plans with the strategic plan.
• Plans relevant training for personnel involved in the Assessment carries risks that market participants will
and Evaluation Department. need to understand throughout boom and
• Prepares Directorate’s quarterly and annual reports bust cycles to ensure that they provide suit-
able advice to investors and appropriately
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES manage their own financial positions. Simi-
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be results oriented and be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements below represent the required larly, changes in the local and global macro-
knowledge, skills, and abilities.
economic conditions could trigger sudden
• Demonstrated knowledge of the rules, regulations and principles of the • Skill in working effectively in a team environment with various stakeholders.
stops and reversals in cash flows that, if not
Council regarding assessment development, student assessments and • Proficient in using e-mail, Microsoft Office, spreadsheets, databases,
well managed, could take a significant toll on
results publications. presentation software and the Internet to access data, maintain records,
economic growth. However, these challenges
• Demonstrated knowledge of the policy development, planning, generate reports, and communicate with others.
do not outweigh the benefits capital markets
implementation and monitoring of budgets in an assessment environment. • Ability to plan, organise, and analyse assessment reports and results.
• Demonstrated excellent supervisory, administrative, communication, • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid
can have, rather these challenge are a call for
interpersonal and leadership skills. conclusions.
good regulation and supervision.
• Demonstrated skill in proofreading and maintaining accuracy in all • Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, including
assessment documents related to curricula and assessments. presentations to internal and external stakeholders and the Governing Board. Until next week enjoy making money on
• Demonstrated organisational skills in handling and directing multiple and • Be sensitive to issues of assessment and certificate fraud. capital markets. Thinking of raising capital
complex assessment research and projects. (issuing shares or bonds), listing shares on
the securities market, buying or discounting
Education and Work Experience Requirements: bonds, Treasury bills, equity trading and capi-
To perform this job successfully, an individual must possess the minimum education and experience requirements listed below. tal markets news and information? Contact us
• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Educational Assessment/ Measurement and Evaluation or a related field. today.
• Minimum of five (5) years of managerial experience in the management of examinations. Psychometric knowledge will be an added advantage.
OR
• A Degree in Education (Assessment/ Measurement and Evaluation) or equivalent plus at least 7 years’ managerial experience in the management of examinations
Katleho Securities, (Member of Maseru
Address your application, with a covering letter explaining interest,
The closing date for the submission of applications is
Securities Market)
and a detailed résumé showing three contactable referees to:
Wednesday, 31st May, 2023 at 16:00. Correspondence will only +266 27002418, 53230700, 68730055
email : hr@examscouncil.org.ls be done with short listed candidates. lnyambuya@katleho.co.ls, securities@
The Human Resource Manager katleho.co.ls, www.katleho.co.ls
Examinations Council of Lesotho leonardnyambuya@yahoo.com
P.O. Box 507 Plot Number 12292-972 Mabelebele Street,
Maseru 100
Katlehong, Maseru, Lesotho
 HEALTH
LESOTHO COVID
STATISTICS

New cases 0
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consequences come with these deficiencies

The importance of making

because that means they do not have the nec-
essary motors to bring them there.”
Nutrition is a pivotal aspect of maintaining
good health; however, it often gets overlooked
in our fast-paced lives.

nutritious choices Keizer, posed an important question:

“Whether we give nutrition the attention it de-
serves in our daily lives?”
It can be incredibly challenging to make
healthy food choices, especially when con-

F
OOD insecurity and inflation have caused
a significant nutritional deficiency, affect-
ing the overall physical health and psy-
chosocial development of the country’s people.
Shockingly, this lack of essential nutrients
has been linked to behavioural and sleep prob-
lems in children and the emergence of chronic
health concerns like cardiovascular disease
and high cholesterol.
In a recent interview with IOL Lifestyle,
Leanne Keizer, Corporate Affairs Manager at
Danone Southern Africa, emphasised the sig-
nificance of examining micro-nutrient defi-
ciencies in the South African population and
the indispensability of closing this micro-nu-
trient gap.
“It is more crucial than ever to guarantee
that people have access to essential nutrients
for optimal physical and emotional health
because the availability of inexpensive and
healthy food options is fast diminishing. Ad-
dressing this health epidemic and encourag-
ing good eating among all South Africans are
essential,” said Keizer in conversation.
Keizer further notes that there are three
crucial nutrients that the South African popu-
lation is currently struggling to obtain through
their diets. That being Vitamin A, Iron, and
Zinc.
According to her, these micro-nutrients are
essential in supporting a child’s overall well-
being.
Children are often the group closely studied
as their micro-deficiency levels provide an in-
dicator of the overall picture of the population.
She explains that measuring micro-deficien-
cies in children helps to gain a better under-
standing of the nutritional needs of the entire
population and how they can be addressed ef-
fectively. While research often focuses on chil-
dren for this reason, it is important to explore
the dietary habits of all individuals to create
FOOD insecurity and inflation have caused a significant nutritional deficiency, affecting the
overall physical health and psychosocial development of the country’s people.
awareness and promote healthy eating habits
for optimal health for all South Africans.
Studies indicate that 40 percent of South
African children are deficient in vitamin A, a
nutrient vital for strong immunity and healthy
eye health. Furthermore, 40 percent of chil-
dren suffer from a zinc deficiency, a micro-
nutrient closely linked with supporting a
strong immune system. Iron is also a nutrient
of concern as one in ten children experience a
deficiency, which can hinder growth and im-
pede brain development, ultimately affecting
a child’s ability to concentrate and learn.
“It is important to ensure that children have
access to these nutrients, as they are vital for
optimal physical and cognitive growth. Nutri-
ent-rich foods and supplements are an essen-
tial component of a healthy diet, especially for
children,” she said.
“And so, in circumstances where we see
these micro-nutrient gaps, it means that chil-
dren and people are not developing. And some
venience is a factor. This issue is particularly
prevalent in South Africa, where families may
lack the financial resources to prepare whole-
some meals.
“The result of this is a steady decline in the
health and well-being of the population. It’s
imperative to prioritise nutrition to ensure
that our bodies receive the essential nutrients
required for optimal function.”
She went on to say: “It doesn’t have to be a
complete redo of our diets, that becomes very
overwhelming very quickly and becomes very
difficult to implement. But there are certain
things that you can do to close that nutrition
gap.”
“We need to start looking at snacking very
differently: snacking particularly for kids but
also for adults is an important moment for nu-
trition intervention. People need to intention-
ally choose a snack that is nutrient dense.”
But unfortunately, today, our snacking hab-
its are more convenient and ‘flavour based’,
i.e. packets of chips that are high in calories
and low in nutrients which are not adding
anything substantial to your body.
So rather substitute your snack at that mo-
ment for a fruit or vegetable or a product that
has added nutrients in them. For example,
Nutriday produces yoghurt and dairy snacks
fortified with nutrients we know consum-
ers need. Dairy is intrinsically good for your
health. It has a lot of benefits, said Keizer.
But over and above that, it means we’ve
looked at the context of South Africa and iden-
tified nutrients that are lacking and added
those nutrients intentionally to help close that
nutrient gap.
“These are small intentional changes that
will, in turn, make a huge difference in the nu-
trient intake and close that gap. As food manu-
facturers, we have a responsibility to produce
foods that address consumer needs.” — IOL

Why exercise recovery

is an essential part of
any fitness routine
E
XERCISE recovery is an es-
sential part of any fitness
routine. It refers to the pe-
riod after a workout when your
body repairs and strengthens it-
self.
Recovery time can vary depend-
ing on the intensity and duration
of your workout and your overall
fitness level. Proper recovery can
help prevent injuries, improve
performance and promote overall
wellness.
Exercise puts stress on your
body, which can cause damage
to your muscles and tissues. Re-
covery time allows your body to
repair this damage and build new
muscle tissue. It also allows your
body to rest and replenish its en-
ergy stores, which are depleted
during exercise.
Proper recovery can help pre-
vent injuries by allowing your
body to heal and strengthen itself.
It can also improve your perfor-
mance by allowing your body to
PROPER recovery can help prevent injuries by allowing your body to heal and adapt to the stresses of exercise
strengthen itself. and become stronger and more
efficient.
What should we know about
exercise recovery?
There are several things you
should keep in mind when it
comes to exercise recovery:
Rest is important: Your body
needs time to recover after a
workout. Make sure to take rest
days and get enough sleep to allow
your body to heal and recharge.
Nutrition is key: Eating a bal-
anced diet that includes plenty
of protein, carbohydrates and
healthy fats can help your body
recover more quickly. Make sure
to eat within 30 minutes after a
workout to replenish your energy
stores and promote muscle recov-
ery.
Hydration is essential: Drinking
plenty of water before, during,
and after exercise can help pre-
vent dehydration and promote
recovery.
Stretching: Stretching and foam
rolling can help improve circula-
tion and reduce muscle soreness,
which can help speed up recovery.
Listen to your body: If you’re
feeling tired or sore, take a break
from exercise or reduce the inten-
sity of your workouts.
Pushing yourself too hard can lead
to injury and slow down your re-
covery.
Exercise is an essential aspect of
a healthy lifestyle, whether you’re
trying to lose weight, build mus-
cle, or improve your overall well-
being.
In addition to physical benefits,
exercise recovery is also impor-
tant for mental health. Taking
time to rest and recharge can re-
duce stress levels and improve
overall well-being.
By prioritising rest, nutrition,
stretching, hydration and active
recovery, you can optimise your
exercise recovery and achieve
your fitness goals. — IOL
20 Advertisement Lesotho Times May 11 - 17 2023 Lesotho Times Advertisement 21

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Recognizing the need to empower the youth to start and run own businesses
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Partnering to ensure a healthy generation Partnering to support digital, inclusive and tech-

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nology based education ensuring Basotho youth
get world class education to prepare them for the
future
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300 youth received entrepreneurial training and support for businesses with infant mortality
top 10 receiving funding in excess of M500k 2. Seboche Hospital Disaster relief
2. Entrepreneurship Development and support to local contractors 3. Cancer Hospice support
3. LDF Boot Camp 4. Morija Scott Hospital Maternity ward support
1. Vodacom STEM Bursary and Scholarships 20 tertiary fully funded

Access & inclusion

bursaries
2. Keeping the girl child in school – dignity campaign through
reusable menstrual products in partnership with World Vision and
Rutanang foundation to 850 young girls
Ensuring that the disabled are given equal and inclusive 3. Schools connectivity and schools ICT labs (Tsehla Primary school
access to education with assistive devicesensuring that the & Malea-lea Community) curated with the “learning platform”
disabled are given equal and inclusive access to education 4. Code Like a Girl – driving coding skills among school going girls
with assistive devices in partnership with UNICEF +- 1500 young girls trained

+M4.4m
Social Protection
1. Support to the visually impaired
2. National Library Insight Centre
3. Resource Centre for the Blind
4. Support for schools for the deaf with assistive devices
and ICT tools with appropriate assistive tools
Eradicating and supporting victims of GBV

+M856k
5. Support for Thuso e Tla Tsoa Kae Centre for the
intellectually disabled with assistive devices
6. Special tertiary scholarships for the disabled.

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Entertainment 786k
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Ministry of Gender

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1. Lesotho Premier League soccer
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2. Tennis
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▪ Cleketseng festival of music
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Vodacom invests +- M40 Million to improve the lives of Basotho.

M40m spent on social initiatives in our strive to “Connect for a better future, Change lives and Connect for good”. Vodacom connects Basotho and Lesotho as Lesotho’s best
network with over 80% coverage ensuring ease of communication and through VCL Financial Services M-Pesa has become Basotho’s currency of choice ensuring financial
inclusion and changing the lives of Basotho.

Through the Foundation and CSI initiatives we have ensured a healthy generation with access to quality education through our bursaries, sponsorships and driving digital skills for
young girls, inclusive education. Youth Entrepreneurship is the bedrock of any economy and we continue to support youth development to empower the future generation.

We continue to be the largest supporter of Soccer and the entertainment industry in Lesotho. Through the merchant exchange Mpesa continues to change lives by connecting
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Motoring
Lesotho Times May 11 - 17 2023

I June could bring significant

NFLATION is hitting South Africans from
all angles at the moment, but there could be
some relief for motorists at the beginning of
June.

petrol and diesel price cuts

Granted, we’re only 10 days into the month
and much could change in the coming weeks,
but if oil prices hold at current levels, and there
are no major currency shocks, then significant
petrol and diesel price cuts could be on the cards
for June.
The latest daily snapshot from the Central En-
ergy Fund, released on May 10, shows a signifi-
cant over-recovery for both fuel types.
The month average is currently pointing to a
reduction of R1.16 for 95 Unleaded Petrol and
R1.12 for 93 Unleaded, and the latest daily stats
are even further into the green, suggesting those
aforementioned figures could grow.
On the diesel front, the data is currently point-
ing to a reduction of around R1.50 per litre for
both grades.
This month saw diesel prices decrease by be-
tween 47 cents (50ppm) and 73 cents (500ppm),
while both grades of petrol increased by 37
cents.
95 Unleaded currently costs R22.62 at the
coast and R23.34 in the inland regions, where 93
Unleaded retails at R23.01.
International oil prices have fallen in the past
month, with Brent Crude trading at $77.44 on
Tuesday, down from around $85 a month ago.
However, the US Energy Administration
warns that a seasonal rise in oil consumption
and a drop in OPEC crude oil output could
put upward pressure on prices in the coming
month.

Petrol still historically high

Petrol prices have risen significantly in the past
two years, considering that 95 Unleaded cost
R18.89 at the beginning of 2022 and R14.16 in
January 2021.
The wholesale price of 500ppm diesel has
risen by around R5 in the past two years, and
the current cycle of decreases could help to slow
down general inflation.
“Diesel is a big input cost in major sectors such
as agriculture, mining and manufacturing and
an increase here often contributes to increased
prices of basic commodities,” the Automobile
Association said.
However, it could take some time for this to
filter through to consumer prices.
— IOL Motoring EARLY indications are that fuel prices could come down significantly in June.

These were the world’s best-selling cars in 2022

estimated sales of 1 016 000, albeit a 10
ping 66 percent year-on-year to 7.37
percent drop from last year. This insight
million units. JATO global analyst Felipe
is based on JATO’s own data for 53 mar-Munoz believes that the EV boom is set
kets as well as further research and esti-
to continue in the coming years.
mations for 95 other markets. “Governments in the developed
The Toyota Corolla Sedan came sec- world have continued to offer gener-
ond with 992K units, but if you includeous incentives, encouraging consum-
ers to make the switch away from ICE
the Corolla Cross, which was listed sepa-
vehicles, while average prices have
rately in 8th place with 530K sales, then
decreased thanks to the introduction of
the Corolla nameplate as a whole is still
the world’s most popular, accounting more affordable models by OEMs.”
for over 1.5 million sales. Sadly none of this has happened in
The Toyota Camry also made the top South Africa as yet, notwithstanding
five at 673K, but it was beaten by the the lack of a stable power grid, although
Honda CR-V (733K) and Tesla Model Y GWM could partially solve the afford-
ability problem here later this year —
(747K). See the Top 10 list below, round-
ed off to the nearest thousand: more on that here.
Overall global vehicle sales declined
World’s best-sellers, 2022: JATO Dynam- by 2 percent last year, JATO reported,
ics and this is attributed to the well-publi-
1. Toyota RAV4 – 1 016 000 cised supply chain disruptions that Cov-
2. Toyota Corolla Sedan – 992 000 id caused as well as the Russia-Ukraine
3. Tesla Model Y – 747 000 war.
4. Honda CR-V – 733 000 However, the African continent saw
5. Toyota Camry – 673 000 a 5.5 percent increase in 2022, and
6. Toyota Hilux – 632 000 this was largely thanks to South Af-
7. Nissan Sentra – 566 000 rica, which saw a 14 percent increase
8. Toyota Corolla Cross – 530 000 year-on-year. While we remain a small
9. Ford F-150 – 525 000 player in global terms, South Africa still
10. Tesla Model 3 – 482 000 accounts for 44 percent of African vehi-
TOYOTA RAV4. cle sales.
If ever you need evidence that electric On the South African sales charts, the

B
Y now we’re quite familiar with frequently? Information specialist JATO month being an exception that worked car sales are surging in other markets, Toyota Hilux topped the list with 32 203
the cars that dominate the South Dynamics set out to answer that ques- in the favour of Ford’s Ranger), the ven- consider that the Tesla Model Y crosso- sales last year. The Volkswagen Polo
African market, but essentially tion — and it’s certainly no mean feat erable bakkie range only managed sixth ver was the third best-selling vehicle Vivo was the country’s top-selling pas-
we make up less than 1 percent of the considering that just under 80 million place in the global ranking, with a total in the entire world last year, while the senger car with 20 866 sales, followed
world’s market. vehicles were sold across the globe last of 632 000. Model 3 sedan made 10th place. by the Suzuki Swift, with 17 282. See the
But what vehicles are our counter- year. While the Toyota Hilux dominates Toyota’s RAV4 took top honours as the According to JATO, global sales of ful- Top 10 list for cars and SUVs here.
parts around the globe buying most the South African market (with last world’s top-selling vehicle in 2022, with ly-electric vehicles increased by a whop- — IOL Motoring
Weekender
Lesotho Times May 11 - 17 2023
DJ Maphorisa
granted R4 000 bail
as Thuli drops assault case . . .
D
J Maphorisa’s case has been re- case. According to National Prosecuting
manded to 14 June for him to lodge Authority (NPA) spokesperson Phindi
representations to the NPA after the Mjonondwane on Sunday, the award-
complainant filed a withdrawal statement. winning DJ allegedly hit his girlfriend
Themba Sonnyboy Sekowe, affectionately with open hands and strangled her after
known as DJ Maphorisa, was granted R4 she confronted him about an incident that
000 bail by the Randburg Magistrates happened the previous night where he
Court on Monday after his girlfriend, was booked to perform.
former Generations: The Thuli laid a charge at the Sandton Police
Legacy star Station and was arrested Maphorisa im-
T h u l i mediately.
Phongolo, During proceedings, she then filed a
dropped withdrawal in which she agreed for the
THULI the as- accused to be released on bail.
Phongolo. sault “The case was remanded to 14 June for
Sekowe to lodge representations to the
NPA in light of the withdrawal statement
that has been filed by the com-
plainant.”
City Press reported
that the actress opened
a case and shared the
details of the incident
in a statement seen by
the publication.
“I confronted him
so that we could talk about our argument
that happened the previous night during
his gig… He held me and took me to the
balcony, and grabbed me aggressively by
my neck,” Thuli said as quoted by the pub-
lication.
The paper also quoted a source that re-
vealed this was not the first time the cou-
ple argued.
“They had a fight in early December af-
ter accusations of infidelity. They had an-
other fight last month but it never got to
the police station.”
Their relationship
Thuli has previously denied being in a re-
lationship with the DJ. The pair sparked
dating rumours in 2021 when a video of
them dancing intimately made rounds
on social media. As people continued to
speculate that they were romantically in-
volved, Thuli took to her Twitter page to
shut down the rumours.
“Y’all stop. We’re not dating! I’m so done
with you guys! And the truth remains, I’m
single,” she wrote.
Previously, the actress has also been ru-
moured to be dating other DJs, including
the Jerusalema hitmaker Master KG
and Mr. Jazziq.
“I mean ‘respect me’ as in
stop spreading baseless ru-
mours! Hayibo nina, an-
gisadlali!” She wrote
denying Master KG‘s
rumours.
— The Citizen
DJ Maphorisa.
24 Entertainment Lesotho Times May 11 - 17 2023

Cryptic Crossword Last Week Solution

Across
5 Some domestic leverets, by
no means hare-brained (6)
6 Rabbit’s friend finally gave
the okay to enter home (6)
9 Rabbit’s retreat from beach,
going back into vessel (6)
10 eg scorpion in car had run
amok (8)
11 Divine female among she-
rabbits, a variety of hare (4)
12 American rabbit time after
time found in strange location
(10)
13 Cheesy offering for poor
performer in red jersey (5,6)
18 VIP’s moving appearances in
public (10)
21 Raise something that may
be brought up by latecomers
(4)
22 Article’s lacking in
inspiration regarding name for
fellow believers (8)
23 Old marketplace importing
new kind of yarn (6)
24 Fluctuate in encounter, with
tense change in second half (6)
25 Punished author who
supposedly prioritised catching
hare, we hear (6)
Down
1 Extremely depleted bag, ie
awfully bad result of rabbiting?
(8)
2 Satisfied with strain in neck
reduced? Not like hands and
feet (6)
3 He’s taken on terrible combat,
making great sacrifice (8)
4 From which rabbits may
emerge — often with tails
behind? (3,3)
5 Caught and destroyed, like
hare at start of spring? (6)
7 Conclusion reached by judge
on lawful extract (6)
8 Seasonal deliverer of eggs,
but mostly in Queens etc (6,5)
14 Kind of rabbit from south of
European peninsula (8)
15 Doctor getting into hot
water (8)
16 Writer about cunning rabbit
in part of Scottish island (6)
17 Architect’s taken over
interior of barn for Peter’s
home (6)
19 Small violin and half of score
for one of Hazel’s family (6)
20 Second animal rather like
rabbit, right? Not hog (6)

Andy Capp Hagar the Horrible

Quick Crossword Last Week Solution

Across
1 Magical and wonderful (10)
7 Less full (7)
8 How scary! (5)
10 Assistant (4)
11 Drought-stricken US
region from Texas to
Nebraska in the 1930s (4,4)
13 Cavalryman (6)
15 Without generosity (6)
17 Winner of the 1921 Nobel
Prize for physics (8)
18 Three wise men (4)
21 For all instruments to
play (5)
22 Having a run of good
fortune (2,1,4)
23 Like an ambiguous
compliment? (10)
Down
1 Two-wheeler with a small
engine (5)
2 Damage beyond repair (4)
3 Scene of frenetic or noisy
activity (informal) (6)
4 Complete outfits of
clothing and accessories for
new babies (8)
5 x, y, or z? (7)
6 Small group of soldiers (10)
9 Foolish person (informal)
(5,5)
12 Three wickets taken in
three consecutive deliveries
at cricket (3,5)
14 Ol’ Blue Eyes (7)
16 Kiwi expression of thanks
(3,3)
19 Duck (5)
20 South African currency
unit (4)

Sudoku Last Week Solution

How to solve

Fill in the grid so

that every row,
every column
and every 3x3
grid contains the
digits from 1 to 9
with no repeats.
May 11 - 17 2023 Lesotho Times World View 25

T Worlds apart? The complex

HE anti-migration sentiments promoted by
right-wing political parties and integrated
into the policy space of several countries in
Europe have further worsened the conditions of

dynamics of Africa-EU migration

undocumented migrants and exposed them to
institutional discrimination.
Between January and March this year, about
441 African migrants died in the Mediterranean
Sea while attempting to cross into Europe. Around
the same period in 2017, 750 migrants lost their
lives in similar incidents. Since 2014, more than
20,700 Africans have either died or gone missing
in their bid to make it to Europe.
Despite the “efforts” of both African and Euro-
pean actors to address the push factors of migra-
tion, thousands of Africans continue to flee the
continent for several reasons, including to escape
from violent conflict. Many risk their lives while
trying to flee through illegal routes.
The Sahel region has become a theatre of
violence, insurgency and terrorism. The current
Sudanese conflict, driven by two antagonistic
and power-hungry army generals, has led to the
deaths of 528 people, with 4,500 wounded. Thou-
sands of people have been displaced.
In Nigeria, Boko Haram’s reign of terror and
the farmers-herders conflict have displaced more
than 3.1 million people as of June 2022.
In Libya, many migrants have accepted so-
called assisted returns to their countries of ori-
gin — not voluntarily, but by compulsion – due
to dehumanising detention conditions, including
threats of torture, extortion and sexual violence.
Others are commonly at the mercy of sex and la-
bour traffickers.
Hardship and uncertainty
They are confronted with hardships in African
transit countries and uncertainties about what
awaits them in Europe.
Those who make it to Europe have testified to
further ill-treatment. Anti-migration sentiments
(promoted by right-wing political parties) are
being integrated into the policy space of several
countries in Europe, further worsening the con-
ditions of undocumented migrants and exposing
them to institutional discrimination.
Since the 2015 European migration crisis, mi-
gration has been a dominant theme in domestic
politics in most European countries. While the
European Union (EU) and Africa celebrate their
close relations, policymakers from both conti-
nents have divergent perspectives on the issue of
migration.
While African actors see migration as natural,
developmental and mutually beneficial, EU poli-
cymakers conceive it from the standpoints of poli-
ticking, security and control.
A lively discussion took place at the recent
launch of the edited volume titled, Worlds Apart?
Perspectives of Africa-EU Migration, by this writer
and Jesper Bjarnesen.
As the Swedish EU Presidency winds up next
month, the Swedish Ministry of Justice and Min-
istry for Foreign Affairs invited policymakers on
migration from the 27 EU member states to the
launch of the book in Brussels, Belgium, on 2 May,
at the offices of the Swedish Permanent Represen-
tation to the EU.
tic of changes in population. It is natural and has
nothing to do with social and economic status.
Discussions reflected on the role and perspec-
tives of European civil society and noted that Eu-
ropean debates about immigration are increas-
ingly state-centric, critical and sometimes racial.
The meeting reinforced the reasons why Afri-
can migrants continue to move to Europe through
illegal routes, such as the central Mediterranean
Sea, and argued for the expansion of legal path-
ways to provide more opportunities for people on
the move to use legal routes.
Remittance, migration and development
Remittances, which have dominated the conver-
sation on international migration, were located
in proper contexts. Remittances sent from the
EU accounted for 11 percent of the total flows re-
ceived by low and middle-income countries and
benefited about 105 million people in the origin
countries.
Remittance is the most obvious link between
migration and development. It enhances Africa’s
quest for economic development and should also
be seen as an urgent save-our-soul intervention
from the African diaspora. Remittances should
not be conflated with capital flight, but are funds
that are earned through hard labour. Migrants
have supported their societies and home govern-
ments by constructing schools, hospitals and sta-
diums.
African migrants send remittances, not from a
standpoint of affluence, but mostly through pain
A LIBYAN coast guardsman stands on a boat during the rescue of 147 illegal immigrants and resilience; thus, a further downward review
attempting to reach Europe off the coastal town of Zawiyah, 45km west of the capital of charges on money transfers and removal of
Tripoli. several gridlocks that impede remittances are de-
sirable.
Both Swedish departments are co-chairing Data released by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation It is also imperative for Africa to explore the use
a working group of the European Council, the and Africa-Europe Foundation revealed that in- of remittances not only for family consumption,
“Working Party on External Aspects of Asylum tra-African migrations since 2010 have increased but for the creation of productive opportunities
and Migration”, in charge of deliberations on ex- by around 43.6 percent compared with 26 per- for national and regional economic development.
ternal aspects of EU migration policy. cent for Africa-Europe migrations. The meeting offered a platform for rethinking
The launch was co-hosted by the Swedish gov- The speakers engaged the notion that African migration governance in Europe and argued for
ernment and the Sweden-based Nordic Africa and European perspectives on migration govern- the depoliticisation and desecuritisation of mi-
Institute (NAI), in collaboration with the Institute ance are “worlds apart”, as reflected in the title of gration, and the implementation of sustainable
for Pan-African Thought and Conversation at the book. Clearly, discourse on Africa-EU migra- policy templates that would address the voices
the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. tion is dominated by EU narratives and driven by of African migrants. Realistically, border policing
The meeting was chaired by the Director of NAI, the asymmetrical power relations between Africa does not necessarily reduce migration. It is impor-
Therese Sjömander Magnusson. Both editors of and Europe. tant to humanise migration policy and partner to
the book, Anna Knoll and Amanda Bisong of the As reinforced during the meeting, migration build a more developed Africa through support in
European Centre for Development Policy Man- is the means to achieve a goal. Panelists interro- human capacity-building and other needs as de-
agement in Maastricht, the Netherlands, were gated the weakness of the European emphasis on termined by Africans.
speakers. addressing the root causes of African migration The meeting advocated for the establishment
and interrogated the EU’s attempt to drastically re- of an Africa-EU taskforce to implement and pro-
Myths duce irregular migration through the EU’s invest- mote a mutually beneficial Africa-EU migration
As highlighted in the book, the meeting contended ments in African socioeconomic development governance. — DM
with some of the myths about Africa-EU migra- and peacebuilding.
tion. Indeed, more Africans travel through legal Many of these interventions do not reduce mi- Dr Adeoye O Akinola is Head of Research
channels than illegal routes such as the Mediter- gration, but enhance movements. People migrate and Teaching at the Institute for Pan-African
ranean Sea, and intra-African migration exceeds for several reasons. Migration, which is some- Thought and Conversations at the University
Africa’s movement to other regions. times forced in Africa, is a significant characteris- of Johannesburg.

way into the Guinness World Records

Forfeit and forget – suddenly no cadres can for the highest number of court ap-
pearances by a septuagenarian in the
history of court systems. Those were

remember currying favour with the Guptas
Mr Styles
places to disclose their encounters
with the Guptas. A bemused public
key state decisions and appointments.
It came to a point where even I, a
awaiting extradition. Or not.
Believing that the Guptas will ever
the days, man, when ANC deployees
went to bed with one eye open to keep
tabs on the news for a possible Cabi-
net reshuffle.
The man really kept his comrades
on their toes with his midnight Cabi-

T
HOSE were the Guptas’ heyday
— when they could summon
and be serviced by the feckless
ANC cabal that flocked to their Joburg
mansion. Yet now it’s hard to find a
single party member who even re-
members them.
Time really flies. And with its pass-
ing, we forget what should, in real-
ity, be unforgettable. Well, perhaps
there’s just too much going on in this
republic of Mzansi for us to have
enough time to digest it all.
Take the case of the Guptas, for in-
stance. It was only because of revela-
tions this past week that Gupta crony
Mosebenzi Zwane has been slapped
with some form of punishment for
his links to their corrupt deeds that
some of us remembered we once had
a problem with that family.
Remember a time, not so long ago,
when the Guptas were the subject of
every news bulletin? Even kids play-
ing football in the streets, buoyed by
the constant mention of this name
in the media, nicknamed themselves
Guptas. That was a time when ANC
politicians, their consciences tempo-
rarily restored by the possibility of
ending up on the wrong side of prison
bars, crept out of all manner of dodgy
was entertained by tales of how sen-
ior and not-so-senior ANC cadres had
been summoned like scholars to the
infamous Gupta mansion in Johan-
nesburg’s leafy Saxonwold suburb to
be wined, dined and curried by the
enterprising family.
It seemed like a competition of sorts
— comrades scrambling to outdo one
another with stories of their encoun-
ters with the brothers from Mumbai.
Read more in Daily Maverick: Mes-
sage for the Moegoe from Moscow: SA
takes a stand against global tsotsis
Bollywood scriptwriters would no
doubt have found compelling materi-
al for a hit film with How We Stole an
African Country as the working title.
It was all just too much. Some spoke
about the tasty curry dishes served
during such encounters. Others spoke
of being offered positions in Cabi-
net or state-owned enterprises, right
there in that mansion.
One visitor, who was at the time
the longest-serving premier in the
country, was even reported to have
made a dashing 400km drive from
Bloemfontein after being summoned
to Saxonwold by the Guptas. By then,
we were told, they were some sort of
super-Cabinet structure that made
stylish child of the soil with no links to
the ruling party elite, had a recurring
nightmare in which I was serenaded
by sari-clad maidens in a sensual
Oriental dance while being hosted at
Saxonwold.
One of the Gupta brothers, I can’t
remember which one, then offered
me the position of chairperson of the
Anti-Stylish People’s Organisation.
Just imagine that…
Well, being a patriotic citizen deep-
ly committed to the stylish agenda of
this Mzansihood, I turned down the
offerWe are now in a very strange
period in which not any of these ANC
cadres dare speak about these won-
derful hosts, who served them some
of the finest cuisine Mumbai had to
offer while threatening them with
dire action if they didn’t follow their
orders. It’s like they are now all suf-
fering from a high degree of collective
memory loss. Nobody even seems to
remember that the Mumbai trio ever
lived here.
It’s even more startling how it ap-
pears that no one knows exactly
where the Guptas are. One moment
they were living it up in a Gulf state
that’s got no extradition treaties with
South Africa, the next they were in jail
be brought to justice in this country
they allegedly looted and semi-con-
trolled with the aid of high-ranking
ANC cadres is like harbouring hopes
that we could one day see Steve
Hofmeyr as EFF president.
Bringing the Guptas back to face
justice for their alleged role in State
Capture would not be in the best in-
terests of the ruling party. It would
be like the convicted fraudster, rapist
and murderer Thabo Bester forcing
his corrupt prison warden buddies to
testify for the prosecution in his latest
case.
The best we can hope for if we
are really serious about meting out
some form of punishment to them
is to gather the country’s best brains
in witchcraft circles and cast deadly
spells on them. But jail time or trial in
Mzansi, hayi khona…
Short memories
The reality is that we are people with
such short memories that we have al-
most forgotten about the Guptas and
the assistant thieves who paved the
way for their looting of state resources
and coffers. We have even forgotten
that, not so long ago, we were ruled by
a man who now threatens to make his
net reshuffle announcements. That
was rather cruel. Imagine being fired
in the dead of night. You go to bed a
minister with all the wonderful ben-
efits — a driver, bodyguards, a shiny
state vehicle fuelled by the taxpayer.
The next morning you wake to find
that you have to hail a taxi to buy the
morning papers reporting about your
late-night dismissal, with all the privi-
leges of being a minister suddenly
withdrawn.
Even the security guards who you
used to force to lick your boots each
time you made your way into your
state property no longer care to salute
or even greet you, because you have
now become just another ordinary
redeployed cadre.
We have even forgotten that the
man who ruled over us and is now
in line for a possible entry into the
Guinness World Records did some jail
time for defying a commission of in-
quiry that he himself had set up. Ai…
— DM168
Mr Styles is the former president
of the Organisation for Stylish Peo-
ple of South Africa (Osposa). He is
against anything and anyone un-
stylish.
26 Regional News Lesotho Times May 11 - 17 2023

R South Africa is following

EADING the letter from Zim-
babwe from Cathy Buckle in
the paper today, there will be
those who shake their heads about
the collapse of a once-thriving

in Zimbabwe’s footsteps
country and will mutter something
about South Africa heading in that
same direction.

But, wait. Read it again.

Dire conditions
For you will see that, in many re-
spects, our country is already there.
There are already many people sell-
ing things from makeshift spaza
shops on our streets.
There are already gridlocked
traffic jams at intersections where
the traffic lights don’t work — and
where volunteers (often homeless
people in the case of Johannesburg)
step in and impose order on the ve-
hicular chaos.
We, as South Africans, are al-
ready filling the gaps left by our
failed electricity network — wheth-
er through solar power or other al-
ternatives.
Many of us are also looking to
the future and sinking boreholes to
provide our households with wa-
ter. We are already a failed state – if
you define a failed state as a place
where citizens have to take care of
themselves because their govern-
ment cannot do what it should be
doing.

Collapse
And, while we in South Africa may
not be as far down the road of col-
lapse as our neighbours to the
north, more and more services are
not being delivered by the state.
And, as more and more citizens
fall “off the grid”, either through
design or circumstance, we are
going to start seeing negative spin-
offs which will tighten the spiral of
decline – like the decline in tax rev-
enue, which will parallel the mush-
rooming informal sector.
The positive of this is, looking
at things north of our border, that
people on this continent are both
resourceful and resilient and that
they can survive despite what their
politicians do to them. The negative
is that a country goes from a devel-
oping nation to a deteriorating one.
— The Citizen THE group protested against the alleged human rights violations taking place in Zimbabwe. — file pic.

Zimbabwe author Tsitsi Dangarembga

has conviction for protest overturned
Z
IMBABWEAN author and activist
Tsitsi Dangarembga has had her
conviction for inciting violence by
staging a peaceful protest overturned.
The critically acclaimed writer was given
a six-month suspended sentence and fined
70,000 Zimbabwean dollars (£170) in Sep-
tember 2022 for staging a protest calling for
political reform. During the 2020 protest,
alongside fellow activist Julie Barnes, Dan-
garembga held a placard inscribed: “We
want better. Reform our institu-
tions.”
On Monday, the high
court in Harare over-
turned the verdict
handed down
TSITSI
Dangarembga.
by magistrates last year. Her lawyer Chris
Mhike said the court did not find evidence
of any wrongdoing, but the full judgment is
yet to be released.
“Eventually, justice prevailed in this case.
It is most unfortunate that it took so long for
Tsitsi and Julie to be set free. Be that as it
may, this vindication from the high court is
most welcome,” Mhike said.
Human rights organisations including
Amnesty International and the writers’ as-
sociation Pen International had called for
the charges against Dangarembga to be
dropped.
Dangarembga, a longtime
critic of the ruling Zanu-PF
party, which has been in
power since 1980, said her
conviction was a “miscarriage
of justice”.
“The high court ruling overturning
the magistrate court verdict shows that jus-
tice was not served in the magistrates court.
I am most encouraged that the high court
shows respect for the law of Zimbabwe as it
is codified and I pray the high court contin-
ues to serve the people of Zimbabwe by do-
ing so,” Dangarembga said in a statement.
She went on to accuse Zanu-PF of using
the magistrates courts to weaponise the law
against its “opponents or threats to its ap-
parent project of hijacking all political
power in Zimbabwe”.
Dangarembga was ar-
rested amid a crack-
down by security
agencies on hu-
man rights cam-
paigners, which included the arrest of the
investigative journalist Hopewell Chin’ono.
Chin’ono, who was arrested three times be-
tween 2020 and 2021 after accusing the gov-
ernment of corruption, told the Guardian
the pair were being persecuted for standing
up to “tyranny, corruption and the abuse of
the rule of law”.
“The acquittal of Tsitsi Dangarembga and
Julie Barnes is another testimony of how the
rule of law has broken down in the magis-
trates court,” said Chin’ono.
Dangarembga, whose novel This Mourna-
ble Body was longlisted for the Booker prize
in 2020, has been a fierce critic of Emmer-
son Mnangagwa’s government, which has
faced allegations of corruption and human
rights violations.
Zimbabwe holds a presidential election
this year and there are growing fears that
freedom of expression could be curtailed.
Critics say the democratic space is shrink-
ing.
Opposition politician and activist Job
Sikhala has been in prison for nearly a year
on charges of inciting violence, while, two
weeks ago, another opposition leader, Jacob
Ngarivhume, was jailed for four years for
inciting public violence by calling on Twit-
ter for anti-corruption protests in 2020.
One of Zimbabwe’s most vocal opposi-
tion politicians, Fadzayi Mahere, last month
avoided a prison sentence after being con-
victed of “communicating falsehoods” in
2021. Mahere, the spokesperson for the
main opposition party, Citizens Coalition for
Change, was fined US$500 (£400).
— The Guardian
May 11 - 17 2023 Lesotho Times Africa 27

Sudan’s potentially expansive war closed it at the start of the clashes.

The border with CAR remains open.
Both countries have also already

poses severe risks for Chad and CAR

started experiencing an influx
of refugees and returnees. Chad
has recorded between 10,000 and
20,000 refugees in Koufroune, 320
Sudanese soldiers fleeing hostilities

O
PPONENTS in Sudan’s deadly
clashes seem determined
to continue fighting despite
repeated calls from neighbouring
countries, the African Union and
United Nations for a ceasefire. The
stalemate is worrying for Sudan’s
neighbours, particularly Chad and
the Central African Republic (CAR),
which have previously felt the dev-
astating impact of deadly conflicts
in the country.
More than 500 people have been
killed and over 4,000 injured in
the bloodshed that broke out on 15
April between the Sudanese Armed
Forces (SAF) under General Abdel
Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Sup-
port Forces (RSF) led by General Mo-
hamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti).
Chad shares a long 1,300 km
boundary with Sudan. Border-
ing Darfur in western Sudan, the
eastern regions of Chad and CAR’s
northeast have suffered from the
fighting that started in that region
in around 2003. In Chad, Janja-
weed militias have caused several
hundred deaths in the Wadi Fira,
Ouaddai and Sila provinces. In
CAR, the prefectures of Vakaga and
Haute-Kotto have felt the atrocities
of these militias. Both countries
have hosted Sudanese refugees.
Chad, CAR and Sudan have in
common a group of communities
whose movement has never been
stopped by administrative bounda-
ries. These include the Rounga,
various Arab tribes, Zaghawa, Tama
and Massalit. In past clashes, they
were mobilised by multiple rebel-
lions and other militias, regardless
of nationality.
The Janjaweed in all three coun-
tries has mainly mobilised Arab
communities. Rebel groups in Dar-
fur, such as Khalil Ibrahim’s Jus-
tice and Equality Movement, were
predominantly Zaghawa. CAR’s Se-
leka rebellion also mobilised groups
such as the Rounga, the Arab com-
BOTH countries have also already started experiencing an influx of refugees and returnees.
munity and others.
Some states have used militias,
warriors and weapons in these
border areas to fuel insecurity. Un-
der Idriss Déby Itno and Omar al-
Bashir, Chad and Sudan supported
destabilisation efforts in both coun-
tries. When the Seleka started gain-
ing ground in CAR’s northeast, fin-
gers were pointed at Khartoum and
N’Djamena.
Darfur’s major conflicts over
the past two decades have turned
regional. That makes Sudan’s cur-
rent impasse worrying for Chad
and CAR, which are in fragile politi-
cal and security situations. Chad is
undergoing a contested transition,
with security risks still acute in
parts of the country, including the
east.
CAR is still trying to gain control
of its entire territory despite mili-
tary support from Rwanda and the
private Russian company Wagner.
The Vakaga prefecture, for exam-
ple, is a regular theatre for attacks
by rebel groups run by Noureddine
Adam and Ali Darassa. Due to these
rebellions, Sudan closed its border
with CAR earlier this year.
In Sudan’s current conflict, com-
munity members belonging to cer-
tain tribes and ethnic groups could
aggravate the fragility of countries
to the west. Indeed, Hemedti’s RSF
is a fundamentally Arab entity. And
while they were still the Janjaweed
operating in Darfur, these paramili-
taries alienated communities like
the Zaghawa.
While the SAF seems representa-
tive of Sudan’s populations, al-
Burhan had earlier allied with for-
mer leaders of the Zaghawa militias
in Darfur, notably Suliman Arcua
Minnawi, the current Darfur gover-
nor. So al-Burhan counts among his
allies the Zaghawa, who are at log-
gerheads with Hemedti. The princi-
ple is well known: the friend of your
enemy may easily become your en-
emy. How these cross-border com-
munities position themselves in the
war will be important.
In Chad, for example, power has
been held by Déby’s son for the past
two years, following his father’s
three decades as president. The rul-
ing family belongs to the Zaghawa
ethnic group, while several senior
members of the Chadian transition
belong to the Arab community. In
CAR, some rebels now stationed in
the country’s north also belong to
the Arab community.
Despite their posture of neutral-
ity, both countries could become
embroiled in the Sudan conflict be-
cause of these cross-border commu-
nity dynamics. Chad sent additional
troops to its border with Sudan and
and more than 300 Chadian return-
ees.
In mid-April, the United Nations
warned it wouldn’t be able to feed
the 600,000 refugees in Chad from
May onwards if it didn’t receive
emergency international funding.
In CAR, the border city of Am Dafok
in the north has already taken in
more than 6,240 Sudanese refugees
and over 3,460 CAR returnees since
the conflict began.
The economic impact of Sudan’s
war will also be felt by its western
neighbours. Although Chad and
CAR depend mainly on Cameroon
for their exports and imports, east-
ern Chadian provinces and north-
eastern CAR prefectures trade with
Sudan and so could be affected. In
the Vakaga localities, the price of
basic foodstuffs has risen since the
fighting began.
CAR and Chad should urgently
step-up measures to contain pos-
sible spillovers. Engaging with
leaders of transborder communi-
ties could help prevent community
members from joining the fighting.
For those working on regional
political and diplomatic solutions
to Sudan’s conflict, the security con-
cerns of CAR and Chad in relation to
this crisis must also be considered.
Humanitarian agencies in all
three countries need financial sup-
port to deal with new refugees,
internally displaced persons and
returnees. It is vital that the inter-
national community and the Afri-
can Union’s African Humanitarian
Agency are mobilised in all affected
countries. — DM
Remadji Hoinathy, Senior Re-
searcher, Central Africa and
Great Lakes, Institute for Securi-
ty Studies (ISS) and Dr Yamingué
Bétinbaye, Director of Research,
Centre de recherches en anthro-
pologie et sciences humaines,
N’Djaména, Chad.

T
HE Financial Times’ Africa’s Fastest
Growing Companies 2023 list of 100
reveals that sectors such as fintech, re-
List of Africa’s 100 fastest-growing
newable energy, construction and healthcare
grew their businesses over the past year,
shaking off the pandemic and gearing for the
companies includes more than 40 from SA
future.
Among the top performers in South Africa crease in sales over the past financial year,
are IT companies, a mining house and a re- which it says is driven by affordability, invest-
seller of second-hand luxury goods, which ment potential, sustainability concerns and
has been named the fastest growing retail availability.
company in Africa and is 37th overall — beat- Company co-founder Michael Zahariev
ing the growth of more established giants Syg- says that with luxury brands like Hermès,
nia, Naspers, Purple Group and others. Chanel and Louis Vuitton increasing their
That’s not to say the companies are on an prices in some instances by as much as 25
equal footing when it comes to revenue: the percent, Luxity has seen a boom in sales be-
list merely provides an overview of a compa- cause it offers customers the opportunity to
ny’s growth. And some are motoring ahead. purchase high-end items at a fraction of the
The FT ranking notes that in the fastest- original cost.
growing companies list’s inaugural year, “These price increases also allow people to
Covid-19 had accelerated the move online, sell their items at higher prices, allowing for
and companies providing digital services more supply to the market.”
in finance, payments, trade facilitation and The list was once again compiled with the
healthcare were all making headway. research company Statista, which ranked
“It also seems to have been the time in companies by their compound annual growth
which Silicon Valley investors, as well as rate in revenue between 2018 and 2021.
those in Asia and Europe, discovered poten- By researching public information, Statista
tial in the African startup scene, particularly identified companies in Africa as potential
in the tech hubs of Lagos, Cape Town, Johan- candidates for the FT ranking, which were
nesburg, Nairobi and Cairo.” then invited to participate.
Quoting Steve Beck, the cofounder of No- To be included in the list, companies had to
vastar Ventures, a Nairobi venture capital generate revenue of at least $100,000 in 2018
firm, the report said African tech startups had BM GEORGINA grow. and $1.5-million in 2021, and have their head-
raised $5.2-billion in 2021, three times more quarters in Africa.
than in 2020. Many fast-growing companies are private-
which topped the list last year. The e-com- the Congo and Sierra Leone. ly held, the FT notes, so they do not publicly
Top of the list merce company helps small traders to ac- Forty-one South African companies are in- disclose detailed financial data.
Two Nigerian companies top the latest list of cess inventory through more efficient supply cluded in the list, with Deimos Cloud, which “That makes a ranking like this an exercise
the continent’s fastest-growing companies. chains in seven African countries. grew by 177 percent and attained revenue of in approximation and the list does not claim
Abuja-based Afex Commodities Exchange, a Startups dominate, but do not monopolise, $9.5-million during the period at number six, to be definitive. But the screening process…
commodities brokerage for maize, sorghum, the list, which also features metals and min- whereas mining giant Northam Platinum, at which also requires senior executives to sign
cocoa and rice, is in first position with a com- ing, telecoms, healthcare, food and beverages, 23, grew by just under 63 percent and made off on the figures submitted by their compa-
pound annual growth rate over the past three and construction companies. $2.12-billion — less than No 29, Implats (at nies, means, we hope, that the ranking offers
years of 505.3 percent. It was founded in 2014. The list includes a Namibian table grape $8.4-billion), which grew by 53.46 percent. a helpful guide to the companies and sectors
In second place is Moniepoint from Lagos, producer — Silverlands, in the Aussenkehr At No 37 on the list is Luxity, which grew that are managing to do business in a com-
which offers banking for small businesses. It Valley along the Orange River — a Kenyan by 48.8 percent and generated $1.9-million in plex and fast-changing environment.”
has grown by 321 percent over the past three fish farm, a South African company that con- 2021. Future years, the authors say, will reveal
years. ducts remote hearing tests, and renewable Luxity is South Africa’s biggest pre-owned just how enduring their business models
In third place is Sokowatch from Kenya, energy companies in Democratic Republic of luxury reseller, boasting a 75 percent in- were. — DM168
28 International Lesotho Times May 11 - 17 2023

R
Russian missiles
USSIAN cruise missiles exploded in the
air over Kyiv as Vladimir Putin marked
the anniversary of victory over the Na-
zis with a fresh overnight attack on Ukraine.
Speaking at the 78th annual celebration
of the defeat of Nazi Germany in Moscow’s
Red Square, the Russian president said the

downed over Kyiv

“survival of the Russian people” depended on
the war in Ukraine as he used his Victory Day
speech to defend his invasion of the country.
“Today, civilisation is again at a decisive,
turning point, a real war has been unleashed
against us again,” Putin said as he delivered
an angry speech in which he drew false par-
allels between today’s fight with Ukraine’s
“criminal regime” and the defeat of Nazi Ger-
many in 1945.
“We are proud of the participants of the
special military operation. The future of our
people depends on you,” he said, standing on
the Red Square podium.
Putin also blamed the west for “destroy-
ing traditional values” and propagandising a
“system of robbery and violence”.
“The goal of our enemies, and there is noth-
ing new here, is to achieve the disintegration
and destruction of our country,” the president
said, striking a largely familiar tone and fram-
ing the war in Ukraine as a defensive battle
unleashed on Russia.
“Here is to our victory!,” the Russian presi-
dent exclaimed before leaving the podium.
Victory Day, when Russians celebrate the
end of what they call the “great patriotic war”
against Nazi Germany in 1945, has emerged
as the centrepiece of Putin’s vision of Russian
identity over his 23 years in charge.
ecurity concerns cast a shadow on this
year’s Victory Day celebrations across Rus-
sia after two drones attacked the Kremlin last
week. More than 20 cities across the country
had scrapped their parades, including those
several thousands of miles from the front-
lines.
The traditional flyover in Moscow and St
Petersburg was cancelled on Monday and
the parade in the Russian capital was shorter
than in previous years.
Observers also noticed that this year’s pa-
rade featured significantly less heavy modern
equipment than in years past — including
only one Soviet-era tank — a clear sign that
the war in Ukraine has inflicted a heavy toll
on the country’s military.
More than 500 Russian soldiers who fought
in Ukraine were present at the parade, ac-
cording to state media.
The Russian president did receive a late PR
as Putin marks Victory Day in combative style . . .
boost on Monday when the heads of Kazakh-
stan, Uzbekistan and Armenia — three post-
Soviet countries that Moscow strives to keep
in its orbit — announced they would attend
the military parade on Red Square alongside
Putin.
Putin’s speech came hours after his country
launched a fresh barrage of cruise missiles on
Ukraine. Kyiv said its air defences shot down
23 of 25 missiles, fired chiefly at the capital,
Kyiv, and there were no reported casualties.
“Overnight into the ‘sacred’ May 9, [they]
launched an attack on the territory of
Ukraine,” Ukraine’s air force said on its Tel-
egram messaging app.
Sergei Popko, the head of the Kyiv city mili-
tary administration, said the Russians were
trying to kill civilians.
He added: “As at the front, the plans of the
aggressor failed.”
Russia’s latest missile barrage came as both
sides appeared to be preparing for a widely
expected Ukrainian offensive Kyiv hopes will
help recapture territory lost since the start of
the war.
As Putin sought to rally his country through
the memory of the second world war, the
Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy,
on Monday said that “all the old evil that mod-
ern Russia is bringing back will be defeated
just as Nazism was defeated”.
On Tuesday, the European Commission
president, Ursula von der Leyen, arrived in
Kyiv for talks with the Ukranian leader.
“Good to be back in Kyiv,” Von der Leyen
said on Twitter. “Where the values we hold
dear are defended everyday.”
— The Guardian VLADIMIR Putin delivers his speech during the Victory Day parade in Moscow.

EU leaders set out hopes for post-

agreement.
An influential House of Lords
committee recently urged the gov-
ernment to start working with EU

Brexit relations with Britain

capitals to remove Brexit barriers
that block musicians, young people
and professionals from working
easily in Europe.
The UK’s Europe minister, Leo

E
U leaders have signalled their
desire to reset relations with
the UK, seven turbulent years
on from the seismic Brexit vote.
Representatives from all 27 mem-
ber states said on Monday that they
wanted to “develop further ties be-
tween the EU and the UK” after a
deal sealed on Brexit trade arrange-
ments for Northern Ireland.
A little more than two months
after the Windsor framework was
agreed between Rishi Sunak and
the European Commission chief,
Ursula von der Leyen, they stressed
the value of being “valuable part-
ners with each other”.
In an article written for the Guard-
ian to mark Europe Day on Tuesday,
ambassadors and high commission-
ers of all the EU member states say:
“Rediscovery of common interests
and concerns have thus led to the
Windsor framework and to a much
welcome and necessary regain in
trust in EU–UK relations.
“The task ahead is therefore to
build on this re-engagement and to
develop further the ties between the
EU and the UK.
“A strong UK and a strong EU are
valuable partners for each other.
To our mutual advantage we have
the solid relations between our so-
cieties, our business and academic
communities, and the need to en-
sure they continue engaging with
and enriching each other in a mutu-
ally profitable and respectful man-
ner.”
The article is not specific about
the ties, but talks about future se-
Docherty, told the EU European
affairs committee that it was fre-
quently the first topic of discussion
in his visits to EU capitals.
EU school visits collapsed after
Brexit owing to a new rule imposed
by the UK that all visitors from the
bloc had to have a passport rather
than an ID card. This has proved
a challenge for schools across the
continent where ID cards, not pass-
ports, are the official identity docu-
ments of choice.
EU leaders chose Europe Day
because of a resonance they see
between the joint effort to protect
Europe from Russia and the day in
1950 when Robert Schuman, the
foreign minister of France, pro-
posed the creation of an economic
union to bind countries in the post-
war era.
The ambassadors note that “the
EU has become a bulwark of de-
mocracy and promotes security,
economic development, human
rights and fundamental freedoms
throughout the world” — objectives
that are shared by the UK.
“Nowhere is this more evident
than in our common response to the
RISHI Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen at a joint press conference in Windsor after securing a outbreak of war on the European
breakthrough deal to regulate trade in Northern Ireland. continent,” they add.
In relation to cross-border travel
curity, and foreign policy arrange- cards, with talks reopening recently Brexit deal. for schools, Charles Hay, chair of the
ments could be high on the list of on the UK’s participation in Horizon The letter comes less than year Lords European affairs committee,
new partnership talks after the EU Europe, the EU’s €95.5bn (£83.3bn) after relations broke down between said it behoved the liberal democ-
leaders praised the leading role the science and research programme. the UK and the EU when the then racies of Europe to unite despite
UK has played in the Ukraine-Russia Fundamental issues such as a prime minister, Liz Truss, tabled Brexit. “We think we can do better
conflict. re-entry to the single market or the the Northern Ireland protocol bill and we must do better, and we have
A deal on science and satellite customs union will not be up for — which threatened to unilater- the mechanics to do better,” he said.
communications is already on the discussion, as this would reopen the ally tear up parts of the withdrawal — The Guardian
 Jobs &Tenders Lesotho Times
May 11 - 17 2023

T Man discovered that happy

HE link between employee wellbeing
and productivity is all the rage these
days in the world of work.
Recent studies around the world have

workers are more productive

found that employees who are happy, are
paid well and have healthy working environ-
ments, are more productive.
The studies include trials by the organisa-
tion 4 Day Week Global, which claims work-
ing fewer hours equals more productivity
and better mental health for workers.
In fact, a pioneering pilot programme is
currently being carried out in South Africa
by the local branch of the non-profit organi-
sation.
However, the idea of higher productivity in
healthier workspaces is not a novel one.
It was discovered and applied over 200
years ago by Robert Owen, a Welsh entrepre-
neur and social reformer.
Owen was born into a working-class family
in 1771.
When he was 10 years old he was was sent
to work in a drapery and textiles factory. This
experience at a very young age shaped his be-
liefs and ideals for the rest of his life.
Owen’s ideas cannot be divorced from his
politics. He is considered the father of British
socialism.
Among other things, he sought to create a
socialist utopia.
A self-educated man, he aimed to establish
a community where everyone worked for the
common good and there was equality among
individuals.
As the owner of a cotton mill, Owen sup-
ported youth education and early childcare,
free education for workers, and incentives for
work produced by labourers.
He was also instrumental in raising de-
mand for an eight-hour work day, at a time
when most people, including children,
worked more than 13 hours a day. RECENT studies around the world have found that employees who are happy, are paid well and have healthy working environments,
— IOL are more productive.

Vacancy Announcement
Chief Executive Officer
The Road Fund is seeking a highly skilled Chief Executive Officer to join the team at the Head Office. The successful candidate will be responsible
for the overall stewardship and leadership of the Road Fund, through effective Strategy development and implementation, and taking overall
responsibility for the operations of the Road Fund.

Job Purpose:
The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and executing the Organisational Strategy and Annual Business Plans, ensuring business
operational continuity, managing all Road Fund operations, preparing and monitoring the budget, overseeing the management of all employees,
ensuring compliance with all legal and statutory rules and regulations, and upholding the image of Road Fund through stakeholder management.

Qualifications, Working Experience and Knowledge:

• Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) or equivalent plus ten (10) years of working experience at a Managerial level; OR
• Masters degree in Engineering or Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with a professional Engineering certification plus ten (10) years
of working experience at a Managerial level.
• Background knowledge of Corporate Governance.

Remuneration:
Salary will be in accordance with the Road Fund scales of remuneration, which are competitive and market-related.

Requirements further include:

• Certified copies of qualifications
• Two reference letters

Closing Date: Friday 19th May 2023 at 12:00hrs (Mid-day).

If you meet the requirements of this role, please send your CV to: recruitment@roadfund.org.ls
Post delivery to: The Chairperson of the Board, Road Fund, P.O. Box 14644, Maseru 100
Hand deliver to: Ground Floor Reception Office of the Road Fund Secretariat, Corner Senate and Moshoeshoe Roads, Industrial Area, Maseru.

Disclaimer:
Only candidates who succeed in the short-listing stage will be contacted. The Road Fund reserves the right not to appoint if no suitable candidate is identified.
For further details on the Chief Executive Officer’s job profile please visit the Road Fund website: www.roadfund.org.ls.
30 Jobs & Tenders Lesotho Times May 11 - 17 2023

TENDER NOTICE
OPEN NATIONAL COMPETITIVE TENDER
LES/ IEC/TEN/PAN/ 2023-2024/10
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) invites tenders from interested companies for the supply and delivery of
ADDENDUM
JOB VACANCY1
1300 Collapsible Polling Booths to be used in the coming 2023 Local Government Elec�ons.

RE-REGISTRATION OF PRIVATE HIRE FOR PLANT AND VEHICLES BIDDING DOCUMENT

MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF KINGSWAY
Tender document is obtainable from Procurement Unit 2nd Floor at MGC Park during working hours from 09:00am to
The Roads Directorate (RD) was established through the Roads Directorate Act 2010 16:00 hours. Bidders must purchase a copy of tender document at a NON-Refundable fee of M2 200.00 (two thousand,
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corporate with applica�ons
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governed
two hundred Malo�). The procedure for obtaining the Tender document is as follows: Payment of bid document must
be made at 2nd floor MGC Park, Accounts sec�on. The receipt issued must be taken to the office of Procurement
where document will be issued.
POSITION
and ensures that existing roads and access QUALIFICATION
routes are AND EXPERIENCE
comprehensively and regularly
A Electrical Contractors From LEC are Eligible
maintained and rehabilitated when required, upgraded and extended in an efficient EVALUATION CRITERIA
manner to meet the needs of the economy for the nation. The main functions of the
in this Tender of Maintenance and Repair of
• Lead �me
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assurance as well as construction andhave the following:
maintenance of footbridges.
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Kingsway Ar�ficial Road Ligh�ng.

Qualifica�ons and Experience
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that the supplier will be financed for incapable suppliers.
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with Roads Directorate in 2021 registration,
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companies respec�vely.
• Electronic bidding shall not be permi�ed.
Plant and equipment to be registered: • Companies are not allowed to use IEC logo without being authorised.

For further details please contact:

• Payment will be done a�er delivery of goods.
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May 11 - 17 2023 Lesotho Times Jobs & Tenders 31

LESOTHO HIGHLANDS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

Job Summary
Tholo Energy is looking for an HR Administrator to support our Human Resources
department. The incumbent will act as the first point of contact for HR-related
queries from employees and external partners.
The candidate must have knowledge of the HR procedures and juggle around various
administrative tasks in a timely manner, should be able to ensure our HR department
supports our employees while conforming to labor laws.
EXTERNAL ADVERTISEMENT
The bi-national Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), of the Kingdom of Lesotho (KOL) and the Republic of South Africa
(RSA) is aimed at harnessing the water resources of the highlands of Lesotho for the mutual advantage of Lesotho and the
Republic of South Africa.
The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) was set up to implement and operate that part of the LHWP that falls
within the borders of Lesotho. LHDA is to embark on Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), a multi-billion-
rand Phase involving large-scale civil engineering and socio-environmental aspects. In ensuring that it achieves its mandate,
the LHDA places emphasis on its values of caring, professionalism, execution, teamwork, communication, and customer
focus. If you are a Lesotho National espousing the above values and interested in progressing your career to the next level,
please submit your application for the following position tenable at the LHDA, for a contract duration of five (5) years.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Assist in developing and implementing the HR strategy for the company DIVISION/
BRANCH
POSITION/LOCATION GRADE SUMMARY JOB PURPOSE
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND
EXPERIENCE
• Administer the recruitment and selection process Degree in Human Resources

• Administer training and development as well as the performance Management, Industrial Psychology or
equivalent.
A Post-Graduate Degree in Human
management for the company Resources
• Update internal databases e.g Leaves and staff register To develop and maintain a Human
Resources Branch that, within the
Management/ Industrial Psychology/
MBA, or equivalent will be an added
• Prepare HR documents, e.g employment contracts and new hire guides strategic focus and policies of LHDA, advantage.

• Liaise with external partners, e.g insurance vendors and ensure legal
sets out the Human Resources Policies
and Procedures and creates an Minimum Experience
Human Human Resources D4 Paterson employee-centric organisation that Ten (10) years of relevant professional
compliance Resources Manager – HR/ Grading not only values employees but also experience in a similar/large
• Create regular reports and presentations on HR metrics (e.g. turnover rates) Branch HRM/14A/05/23 System ensures a stable and disciplined work organisation, five (5) of which should
be at strategic managerial level.
• Answer employees queries about HR-related issues environment.
Demonstrated experience in Staff Care
and Wellbeing, including Occupational
• Assist in preparing payroll preparation by providing relevant employee Health and Safety for large operations is
a requirement.
information (e.g. leaves of absence, sick days and work schedules)
• Assist in issues of corporate social responsibility or investment Must have considerable experience in
designing and facilitating medium to
• Knowledge of health and Safety process. large scale OD and change management
initiatives, as an HR professional.
CLOSING DATE: 26 May 2023
Application Forms are obtainable on the Ground Floor, LHDA Tower Building or at
Education Requirements and skills www.lhda.org.ls. Application Forms, Curriculum Vitae’s and certified copies of academic
• Degree or Diploma in Business Administration/Human Resources, or certificates, identification and two (2) reference letters are to be hand delivered to the Ground
Floor, LHDA Tower Building, Maseru or posted to the Chief Executive, Lesotho Highlands
Reply
relevant field Instruction
Development Authority, P. O. Box 7332, MASERU 100, Lesotho or alternatively e-mailed in read

• Proven work experience as an Administrative Assistant or other related only PDF format files not exceeding 4 MB to recruitment@lhda.org.ls. For further information
that may be required about any of the positions, please visit the Human Resources Branch, on
the 4th Floor, LHDA Tower Building, Kingsway, Maseru, or view the advertisements on the website
special projects. www.lhda.org.ls.
• Experience with HR software, like HRIS or HRMS & Pastel Payroll  Only applications received on or before the closing date and in the prescribed format will
be considered.
• Computer literacy (MS Office applications, in particular)  Applicants must use the LHDA Application Form.

• Thorough knowledge of labor laws

 QUOTE THE REFERENCE NUMBER OF THE SPECIFIC POSITION ON THE APPLICATION
SUBMITTED.

• Excellent organizational skills, with an ability to prioritize important projects Disclaimers

 Attach Curriculum Vitae (CV), certified copies of certificates and valid manual
transmission Motor Vehicle Driver’s Licence.
• Good communication skills 

Correspondence will only be conducted with short-listed candidates.
Selection interviews for short-listed candidates will be at a date, time and place determined
by LHDA.
 Short-listed candidates will be required to authenticate information provided in the
The Closing date for submission of applications is Friday the 19th May 2023. All 
Curriculum Vitae (CV).
LHDA reserves the right to leave an advertised position unfilled if no suitable candidate
applications should be hand delivered to Tholo Energy Office at Matanki House is identified.
 The employment of successful candidates is subject to positive security clearance and
2nd Floor. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. other requirements as may be stipulated by the LHDA

Request for Bids

Plant, Design, Supply and Installation
(Without Prequalification)
Employer: Lesotho Electricity Company (Pty) Ltd
Project: Lesotho Renewable Energy and Energy Access Project (LREEAP)
Contract title: Upgrading of Substation at Tikoe Industrial Area in Maseru, from 20MVA to 40MVA.
Country: Lesotho
Credit No.: 6532-LS
RFB No: LS-LEC-340836-CW-RFB
Issued on: 4th May, 2023
1. The Government of the Kingdom of Lesotho has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Lesotho Renewable Energy and Energy Access Project (LREEAP) and intends to
apply part of the proceeds toward payments under the Contract for Upgrading of Substation at Tikoe Industrial Area in Maseru, from 20MVA to 40MVA.
2. The Lesotho Electricity Company (Pty) Ltd now invites sealed Bids from eligible Bidders for Upgrading of Substation at Tikoe Industrial Area in Maseru, from 20MVA to 40MVA. The works
comprise of:
Design, supply, deliver, offloading, installation and commissioning of 2 x 20 MVA Power Transformers including:
i) Civil Works
• Assess the current civil works infrastructure and propose rehabilitation procedure.
• Decommissioning of existing 2 x 10 MVA Transformers and store them on the concrete slab.
ii) Electrical Works
• Modification of SCADA system to ensure full functionality.
• Carry out all the necessary substation internal wiring or connections
• Design, supply and installation of 11kV NECRT’s
• Testing and Commissioning of all the newly installed equipment
• Prepare As-built drawings, manuals and hand-over to LEC

3. Bidding will be conducted through national competitive procurement using a Request for Bids (RFB) as specified in the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers World
Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016 updated November 2020 (Fourth Edition) (“Procurement Regulations”), and is open to all eligible Bidders as defined in the
Procurement Regulations.
4. Interested eligible Bidders may obtain further information from the Lesotho Electricity Company (Pty) Ltd, Mr. Mokheseng Mokuoane, Project Manager LREEAP LEC email: makhabanel@lec.
co.ls Cc mokhesengmokuoane@gmail.com and inspect the bidding document during office hours 08H00 to 1700 hours at the address given below.
5. The bidding document in English may be purchased by interested eligible Bidders upon the submission of a written application to the address below and upon payment of a nonrefundable fee
of LSL3,000.00 (Three Thousand Lesotho Loti). The method of payment will be direct deposit into the below shown banking details and sending proof of payment to the email address shown
below. The document will be sent by email.
Account Holder: SREP Grant (TF-1681) Lesotho Electricity Company
Bank: Nedbank
Account Number: 11990115232
Branch Code: 390161
6. Bids must be delivered to the address below on or before 13th June, 2023 at 10H00. Electronic bidding will not be permitted. Late Bids will be rejected. Bids will be publicly opened in the
presence of the Bidders’ designated representatives and anyone who chooses to attend at the address below on 13th June, 2023 at 10H30.
7. All Bids must be accompanied by a Bid-Securing Declaration using the form provided in the bidding document.
8. Attention is drawn to the Procurement Regulations requiring the Borrower to disclose information on the successful bidder’s beneficial ownership, as part of the Contract Award Notice, using
the Beneficial Ownership Disclosure Form as included in the bidding document.
9. The address referred to above is:
Lesotho Renewable Energy and Energy Access Project (LREEAP) LEC
Mr. Mokheseng Mokuoane
120 Lancers Road, Opposite New State House,
Maseru West, Lesotho
Email: makhabanel@lec.co.ls Cc. mokhesengmokuoane@gmail.com
32 Jobs & Tenders Lesotho Times May 11 - 17 2023

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

LIQUIFIED PETROLEUM GAS (LPG) MARKET ASSESSMENT STUDY IN LESOTHO VACANCY ADVERT

The Petroleum Fund is a statutory organisation under the Ministry of Finance, which CBA is a non-governmental organisation whose mandate is to assist the Le-
was established through the Legal Notice No. 96 of 1997 under the Finance Order of sotho Government on five thematic areas HIV and AIDS, Livelihoods, Eco-
1988. The purpose of the Fund is to collect revenue that is utilised for ensuring that nomic Empowerment, Food Security and Humanitarian Relief.
there is security of supply of the Petroleum Products (including LPG) in the country.
The organisation is further delegated, under the Fuel and Services Control (Delegation With support from the Global Fund (GF) CBA is implementing TB/HIV , SRH
Notice) Number 32 of 2021, the powers to set the price and time at which Petroleum
Interventions in the following 8 districts Mafeteng, Mohale’sHoek, Quthing,
Products may be adjusted. It is managed by the Board through the Secretariat which
Qachas’Nek, Thaba-Tseka, Mokhotlong, Butha-Buthe and Berea with the fo-
is headed by the Chief Executive Officer, and its operations are guided by the Lesotho
(Petroleum Fund) Regulations of 2021.
cus on Key Populations ( Female Sex workers, MSM and IDUs) .

In light of the above, the Fund seeks to appoint a suitable Consultant to conduct
Market Assessment for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) in Lesotho. The objective of this
assignment is to assess and analyse the current status; including players, trends, and
future outlook and evaluate the existing Regulatory Framework governing the trade/
business, handling, transportation, storage, and use of LPG in the country.
Interested eligible bidders may obtain the Terms of Reference upon payment of a non-
refundable fee of M1000.00 into the Fund’s bank account:
Bank Name: – Nedbank
Account Holder: – Petroleum Fund
Account No: 021000028317
Branch: Kingsway
Bidders should present the confirmation/proof of payment to the Fund offices for the
purchase of bidding documents. Documents will be available from Monday the 8th May
2023 from 9:00hrs to 15:00hrs. The proposals must be hand-delivered to the address
below on or before Wednesday 24th May 2023 at 12:00 noon and shall be followed by a
public opening of Technical Proposals at 12:15 pm on the same day. Submissions should
be addressed to:
The Human Resources and Administration Manager
LCCI Building
Orpen Road, Old Europa
Maseru 100
Tel. 22312137
Applications are invited from the suitably qualified candidates to fill the
following positions based at Maseru:
1. NURSE:
Responsibilities include but limited to:
The Nurse will be responsible for providing a minimum package of HIV pre-
vention services through support and integration of TB/HIV/SRH including
PrEP, to eligible persons in Mokhotlong at designated Drop in Centres (DICs)
or supported hotspots. The incumbent will also frequently travel to support
outreach services in hotspots and community settings. There will be close
collaboration with the Ministry of Health facilities responsible for the catch-
ment areas being targeted. The incumbent reports directly to the District
Coordinator.
2. DATA CLERK
Responsibilities include but limited to:
The Data Clerk will be responsible for capturing completed data, will ensure
accuracy and completeness of the records captured, working in line with
the data quality, integrity, safety and security requirements. The incumbent
will also be responsible for implementing daily data management activities
including proper filing, data backup and safe keeping of datasets.
NOTE: For further information please refer to Selibeng.

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Salary: Negotiable on experience

SITE WORX (PTY) LTD invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for the position of Health and Safety Officer

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES premises.

a) To establish Health and safety management system,
inclusive of food safety, and ensure compliance to
legislative requirements and best codes of practices
in the hospitality industry.
b) To undertake food safety inspections / health &
safety inspections / to initiate remedial action.
• Implement HACCP program for the site.
• Conduct supplier’s audits, respectively fill the
supplier audit reports, and evaluate suppliers.
GENERAL:
o To undertake any other duties as requested by

e EDITION
c) To ensure the timely and thorough investigation of all the Director, commensurate with the skills and

d)
complaints allocated.
To investigate incidents / accidents / infectious
disease outbreaks to identify root causes and
determine appropriate preventative and corrective
actions.
e) Maintaining of a site risk register advice on the best
methods to manage health and safety risks.
f) Monitor refrigeration and food storage, preparation
and serving practices and provide technical direction
on all health and safety decisions.
g) Ensuring all staff receive the proper training on the
correct food safety practices.
h) Ensuring that fire prevention and emergency
procedures are formulated and implemented.
o
experience of the post holder.
Ensure that emergency procedures are practiced and Introducing the...
enforced to provide for the security and safety of
guests and employees.
o Plan and conduct HSE audits, participate in external
audits and make recommendations to management
in terms of HSE legal and other requirements.
o To have responsibility for the Health, Safety and
Welfare of self and others and to always comply
with the requirement of the Health and Safety
regulations.
o Ensure that fire prevention and emergency
procedures are formulated.
o Comply with food service policies.

i) Ensuring all internal practices and processes are
aligned with client requirements and best practices.
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
• Be responsible for maintaining the highest level of
Food Hygiene and Safety standards.
• Work mostly in the production areas, monitoring that
food safety procedures are being followed.
• Ensure proper documentation and records are
completed by the responsible parties.
• Problem solving as relates to food and safety issues.
• Ensure compliance to the ISO 22000:2005 and ISO
45001:2018 standards in all areas of food production
and all areas involved in the Food chain.
• Assist with enforcing food safety program and
procedures, company policy and personal hygiene
policies.
•
•
Raise awareness on health and safety matters.
Responsible for quality and safety checks for all raw
•
and prepared food products.
Verify and communicate to appropriate departments
any findings as it relates to food safety and/or quality
issues.
• Report and assist with correcting any unsanitary
conditions in food preparation and food storage/
receiving area.
• Report any required maintenance /replacement of
food preparation equipment, surfaces and tools.
• Assist to maintain, and update all records, manuals,
training procedures, product specification books.
• Assist with preparation for all food safety audits.
• Maintain cleanliness and sanitation of all food
Available online
o To always ensure confidentiality, only releasing
confidential information obtained during
employment to those acting in an official capacity.
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• Sound Knowledge of the food industry
standards HACCP, ISO 22000:2005, ISO
45001:2018.
• Analytical skills.
• Flexibility and agility.
• Able to work in a highly pressurized
environment.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIANCE
• Tertiary qualification in Environmental Health, Hard copy available every
•
Food Science, Food Quality and Safety.
Related qualification advantageous. Thursday in leading shops
• Proficiency in Microsoft and Computer
programs. and service stations
•
•
3 Years minimum experience.
Demonstrate experience of inspection of all around Maseru
risk category food premises and evaluation of
HACCP systems.
How to apply: Applications with curriculum vitae,
certified copies of certificates & transcripts, names and
telephones of three(3) contactable referees should
be sent to the following email address: siteworx@
stormmountaindiamonds.com, on or before the 29th May
2023. Only short-listed applicants will be contacted.
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Career Opportunities
Partners In Health-Lesotho has vacancies for the following positions: sustainability of patient treatment and management.
• Inspects patients’ charts daily to determine the inclusion of necessary documentation for communication with other
1) Job title: Ward Attendant health services about the patient’s progress.
Reporting to: Nursing Assistant/Nursing Sister • Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members about whole patient care plans.
Number of positions: Two (2) • Deliver regular updates to doctors, patients, and their family members.
Duty station: Botsabelo MDR-TB Hospital • Give psychological support to patients and their immediate families.
JOB SUMMARY • Assist physicians with procedures such as bronchoscopy, endoscopy, endotracheal intubation, and elective
Responsibilities include maintenance of basic hygiene; clients/patients’ comfort and good nutritional status; infection, prevention, cardioversion.
and control plus control of linen. • Liaises with patients’ relatives and other relevant agencies/departments to assist patients in the process of recovery.
Main duties include but are not limited to:
Maintaining of basic hygiene practices in the Ward/Unit 2.4 Supervision
• Gives daily bed baths, and oral and nail care to very ill patients, and gives the bedridden water to wash by the • Direct and supervise nursing/health care personnel, a particular unit on one shift to patient’s response and
bedside. conditions.
• Take care of the patient’s hair to prevent infection. • Supervises the nursing sisters in the implementation of the nursing process for support and motivation.
• Turn bedridden patients and attends to their pressure parts regularly to prevent pressure sores. • Assesses cleanliness of the wards for the prevention of hospital-based infection.
• Does damp dusting of the beds and bedside lockers to maintain a healthy environment.
• Keeps the patient’s dishes clean to avoid the breeding of flies and cockroaches. 3. JOB SPECIFICATION
Patients’ comfort • Degree in General Nursing and Midwifery
• Does bed making and changing of linen daily and when the need arises to absence a clean and crease-free bed. OR
• Conducts regular bedpan parades and avails bedpans in between as and when necessary. Diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery
Prevention of cross infection • At least 5 years’ experience as an ICU nurse or Critical care unit.
• Sluices and disinfects sputum mugs, urinals bedpans, and soiled linen to destroy bacteria.
• Airs and disinfect the mattress and bed after providing the last services to a client who has either passed away or been MUST be registered with the Lesotho Nursing Council (LNC) and renewed the subscription.
discharged. • Good understanding of health information structures and technology.
Monitoring of bed linen • Available to work 12-hour day and night shifts.
• Counts and records movement of bed linen pajamas, and gowns to and from the laundry in the linen book which is • Demonstrate brilliant empathy and communication skills.
countersigned by the laundress. • Ability to work in a stressful and emotional environment.
Maintaining patients’ good nutrition • Relevant training and/or certifications as an ICU Nurse.
• Feeds the patients who require assistance with their meals as prescribed to sustain their optimal nutritional status.
Other assistive duties include 4. SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES:
• Takes specimens to the laboratory and collects results for review and maintenance of the patient’s management. • Analytic mindset
• Labels and registers patients’ belongings in the kit book and locks them away on admission. • Excellent Communication
• Accompanies patients to the X-ray department, Operating Theatre, Mortuary, etc. in the absence of Porters. • Interpersonal skills
Job specification • Empathetic
• Pass in C.O.S.C / G.C.E
3) Title: Medical Officer
2) Title: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Nurse                                                                                               
Responsible to: ICU nurse Manager Reports to: MDR-TB Program Lead
Number of positions: Two (2) Duty station: Botsabelo MDR-TB Hospital
Duty Station: Botsabelo MDR-TB Hospital   
Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
1. JOB SUMMARY: • Ensure quality of treatment, prescription, and initiation, and clinical follow-up during treatment based on
We are searching for a dedicated intensive care unit (ICU) nurse to join our team and deliver vital care to seriously ill patients national treatment guidelines
in our ICU department at Botsabelo Hospital. As a specialized nurse, she/ he will perform a range of tasks including performing • To provide day-to-day high quality patients’ care for inpatients and out patients.
diagnostic tests, evaluating the patient’s conditions, administering treatment, and providing constant support during recovery. • Conduct daily ward round to review the in patients
Conducting follow-up visits, and responding to medical emergencies. • Participate in hospital call rotations
• Participate actively in the weekly clinical meetings to review clinical operations and get all updates on new
2. DUTIES findings in the MDR TB field
2.1 Patient Nursing Care: • Supervise and train clinical staff
• Evaluate and monitor the patient’s progress. • Support MDR-TB fellowship program and PIH-Boston volunteer specialists
• Identify sudden or subtle changes in a patient’s medical condition. • Support and participate in all trainings organized by PIH-Lesotho for the health care workers within the
• Administer medications per Doctor’s prescription as well providing constant support throughout recovery country and from other countries
time. • Support and be actively involved in all studies
• Perform Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation in case of emergencies. • Conduct care and treatment services to MDRTB patients at clinics in districts
• Perform a physical assessment of assigned patients in HDU/ICU. • Conduct district supervisory visits
• Continuous monitoring of vital signs and reporting any deviation from normal to the team leader. • Participate in different health campaigns especially during the annual world TB day
• Provide respiratory support to patients who are in need including mechanical ventilator support. • Monitor outpatients for problems that may arise during treatment, e.g., side effects, adherence problems, etc.
• Monitoring the fluid balance status of the patient as well as electrolytes balance.
• Carry out various procedures such as intubation, assisting with CVC insertion and ICDT insertion, etc. Preferred Skills
• Develop and implement effective nursing care plans. • Medical degree (MD)
• Modify patient treatment plans as indicated by the patient’s response and conditions. • Minimum two (2) years’ clinical experience, MDR-TB clinical management will be an added advantage.
• Assess the patient’s pain levels and sedation requirements. • Current registration in good standing with the Lesotho Medical Council
• If necessary, respond to a medical emergency and alert the appropriate doctors. • Demonstrate a dedication to serving marginalized groups, such as TB patients
• Care for patient needs throughout their recovery in the ICU unit. • Able to function effectively in a team setting;
• Complete all necessary paperwork before transferring a patient. • Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as strong interpersonal skills
• Maintain patient records. • Proficiency in English and Sesotho (verbal and written)

2.2 Organizations of nursing services within a Ward/unit
• Draws up daily/monthly work schedules for nurses and non-nursing personnel to ensure the right mix of staff at any
time by the duty roster.
• Identifies training needs for improvement of nursing care.
• Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostics tests to identify and assess the patient’s condition.
• Ensure that equipment or devices are clean and properly stored after use.
• Identify and report malfunctioning equipment or devices.
• Provides orientation to all newly employed staff on policies, protocols, and /or guidelines for proper taking off of
work in the ward.
• Participates in clinical teaching of nursing students to correlate theory with practice.
2.3 Co-ordination of nursing services with other health services
• Works with the Pharmacy department to ensure the availability of drugs and supplies at all times for the
Commitment to Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Sexual Harassment:
At Partners in Health, we are committed to ensuring that those who benefit from our work- including our patients, families and
community members – as well as our staff are treated with dignity and respect and protected from sexual exploitation, abuse and
sexual harassment. A range of pre-employment checks will be undertaken in conformity with Partners in Health’s PSEAH policy.
Partners in Health will request information from applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual
abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment.
By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
How to apply:
Interested candidates should e-mail their applications (subject line should be the position being applied for) and detailed CV’s
including three names of traceable referees with valid telephone numbers and email addresses to: lesothorecruitment@pih.org
not later than 24th May 2023. The referees should include the most recent supervisor/s. Hand delivered applications will not be
accepted. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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34 Jobs & Tenders Lesotho Times May 11 - 17 2023

Nedbank Careers

Manager Business Continuity

and Information Risk
Location: Head Office, Maseru
Reports to: Head Enterprise-Wide Risk Management

Purpose of the Job

To oversee bank-wide business continuity management and information risk in line with regulatory and group requirements, to lead and provide advisory support to the
bank on risk management programs for the improved control environment and alignment of objectives to Nedbank strategy, values, and code of ethics. To identify,
assess, mitigate, monitor, and report risks across the bank to enable achievement of business objectives.

Outputs required Competencies ( Technical )

Design and rollout business continuity management and cyber risk management programs Proficiency in Microsoft office suite including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
including simulations and staff training. Proficiency in Data analysis
Proficiency in Project Management
Implement proactive information risk programs that drive detection and prevention of cyber risks. Report writing skills
Knowledge of Lesotho Laws and regulatory requirements impacting Risk
Management
Undertake risk assessments to ascertain business continuity and information security risks and
Competencies ( Behavioral )
produce quality reports to aid in remedial management actions.
Empathy Systems thinker
Demonstrate ethical conduct in the use of the bank’s information assets as well as knowledge of the Emotional intelligence Accountable
banks frameworks, policies, processes, procedures, and other guiding governance requirements Project and change management Strategic Thinker
around information security management. Change champion Ethical
Effective Stakeholder engagement and management
Engage with Group stakeholders to ensure that the system developments, changes, and upgrades Closing Date: 25 May 2023
bear required controls to limit opportunity for information security breaches.
Interested candidates should submit their Motivation Letter, together with
Qualifications and Experience their CVs & certified copies of certificates, and copy of Passport or ID to

Required Qualifications Preferred Qualifications jobsonoffer@nedbank.co.ls

Bachelor’s Degree- Computer science, Information Postgraduate Qualifications in Information
Systems, Electronics Engineering or Related Field. Systems, Electronics Engineering or Related NB: On subject line please reference “ Manager Business Continuity and
Type of Exposure Filed. Information Risk”
Experience
Experience in Business Continuity Management, Cyber
3-7 years Risk related experience Applications recieved after the closing date will not be considered. Only
Security Risk Management, Information Systems, Risk
Management, Regulatory compliance, and auditing /Working Experience Preferred. shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Nedbank Lesotho Limited Reg No I92/191. Authorised financial institution and credit provider.
Manager Credit and Market Risk (job advert) half-page.pdf 1 10/05/2023 5:24:02 pm

Nedbank Careers

Manager Credit and Market Risk

Location: Head Office, Maseru
Reports to: Head Enterprise-Wide Risk Management

Purpose of the Job

To oversee bank-wide credit and market risk in line with regulatory and group requirements.
To lead and provide advisory support to the bank on risk management programs for the improved control environment and alignment of objectives to Nedbank strategy,
values, and code of ethics, To identify, assess, mitigate, monitor, and report risks across the bank to enable achievement of business objectives.

Outputs required Competencies ( Technical )

Undertake independent assurance on credit and market risks by driving and monitoring the Proficiency in Microsoft office suite including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
development of the risk universe, RCSAs, KRIs, Risk Register, Key Issues Control Log, CRMPs, Risk Proficiency in Data analysis
Appetite and other tools necessary for effective risk management. Proficiency in Project Management
Report writing skills
Ensure that the bank’s frameworks, policies, internal rules, methodologies, and processes are Knowledge of Lesotho Laws and regulatory requirements impacting Risk
reviewed and kept up to date in line with internal, group, Regulatory and international standards for Management
effective risk management.
Competencies ( Behavioral )
Prepare and present credit and market risk oversight reports to Enterpise wide Risk Commitee, Empathy Systems thinker
Board and Group governance review. Emotional intelligence Accountable
Project and change management Strategic Thinker
Lead internal stakeholder engagements to ensure proactive management of risks including credit, Change champion Ethical
market risk, operational risk, financial crime, transformation, change, regulatory compliance, Effective Stakeholder engagement and management
governance, third party, and others risks and ensure regular reports for relevant stakeholders and Closing Date: 25 May 2023
governance forums carry sufficient risk coverage.
Interested candidates should submit their Motivation Letter, together with
Qualifications and Experience their CVs & certified copies of certificates, and copy of Passport or ID to

Required Qualifications jobsonoffer@nedbank.co.ls

Experience
Bachelor’s Degree- Risk Management, Investment, Business 3-7 years Risk related experience
Management, Economics, Statistics, or related field. NB: On subject line please reference “ Manager Credit and Market Risk ”
/Working Experience Preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
Postgraduate qualifications in risk management, Business Applications recieved after the closing date will not be considered. Only
management, investment management, economics or related filed shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Nedbank Lesotho Limited Reg No I92/191. Authorised financial institution and credit provider.
 Manager OHS and Fraud & (job advert) half-page.pdf 1 10/05/2023 5:24:12 pm
May 11 - 17 2023 Lesotho Times Jobs & Tenders 35

Nedbank Careers

Manager OHS and Fraud &

Investigations Risk
Location: Head Office, Maseru
Reports to: Chief Risk Officer (CRO)

Purpose of the Job

To lead and provide advisory support to the bank on financial crime risk management programs (Particularly OHS, Corruption, Fraud & Investigations, and other financial
crime) for the improved control environment and alignment of objectives to Nedbank strategy, values, and code of ethics Assess and monitor threats to the bank’s
business from internal and external sources and implement remedial actions in line with regulatory and bank’s requirements. Collaborate with key internal and external
stakeholders to enhance controls to prevent opportunities for financial crimes.
Outputs required Competencies ( Technical )
Identify, Monitor, and lodge requirements for Financial Crime, OHS and other risks related projects to Proficiency in Microsoft office suite including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
ensure delivery of key expected outcomes. Proficiency in Data analysis
Proficiency in Project Management
Ensure that change management program is developed and executed on all Financial Crime and Report writing skills
OHS projects and initiatives Knowledge of Lesotho Laws and regulatory requirements impacting Risk
Management
Undertake investigations and produce quality reports to aid in remedial management actions by
Competencies ( Behavioral )
providing ongoing progress for internal governance structures.
Empathy Artistic in building connections
Conduct risk assessments on strategic initiatives including role of new products, partnerships, Emotional intelligence Accountable
vendors, and delivery channels Project and change management Strategic Thinker
Change champion Ethical
Ensure appropriate action is taken to mitigate fraud impact within operational risk appetite. Effective Stakeholder engagement and management
Closing Date: 25 May 2023
Demonstrate ethical conduct in the conduct on investigations and participate in industry and
group initiatives aimed at curbing financial crime. Interested candidates should submit their Motivation Letter, together with
Qualifications and Experience their CVs & certified copies of certificates, and copy of Passport or ID to

Required Qualifications Experience jobsonoffer@nedbank.co.ls

Bachelor’s Degree- Forensic investigations, Fraud & Risk 3-7 years Risk related experience
Management, Auditing, Economics, Commerce, Finance, /Working Experience Preferred. NB: On subject line please reference “ Manager OHS and Fraud & Investigations
Business Analysis, Risk Management, or related field. Risk”
Preferred Qualifications Applications recieved after the closing date will not be considered. Only
Postgraduate qualifications in Risk Management, Forensic Investigations, shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Business Management or related filed

Nedbank Lesotho Limited Reg No I92/191. Authorised financial institution and credit provider.

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May 11 - 17 2023 Lesotho Times Sport 37

A
FTER the silence, the explosion. It was
the biggest game this city has seen in
two decades, and if there was a certain
restraint to the emotions at full time it was only
Inter hold advantage after early
the knowledge that next week’s will be bigger
still. Yet after 90 minutes we have a clear fa-
vourite: Simone Inzaghi’s flawed but fearless
Inter Milan, who claimed the spoils in a star-
Edin Dzeko strike against Milan
tling opening burst and then held off their bit-
ter rivals through gritted teeth, and against an
atmosphere that shook the senses.
Even on their home turf this was an away
game for Inter, and as pre-match nerves gave
way to open hostility, they produced a per-
formance to stand alongside any in the club’s
recent European history. Edin Dzeko and Hen-
rikh Mkhitaryan claimed the goals, but in re-
ality this was a triumph of leadership: not so
much from Inzaghi himself but from the big-
game players who did their jobs, won their du-
els, sensed and sniffed their way through the
sort of game for which no team talk or training
can really prepare you.
For AC Milan, the only small mercy is that
there is still a semi-final to salvage. This is a
club steeped in the heritage of the European
Cup, who have played beyond themselves to
reach this point and will back themselves to
do the same next Tuesday. But there comes a
point when tradition and institutional mem-
ory run up against the hard-edged necessities
of, you know, being able to clear the ball from
your own penalty area. And on some level
perhaps Milan were simply disoriented by the
size of the occasion, rattled by the noise, blown
out of their comfort zone.
But before the explosion, there was silence.
Silence on the metro, silence in the piazzas and
silence in the cafes. Milan was a siege city in
the hours before this game, gripped by the sort
of fretful and sullen anxiety that defines all the
world’s great derbies. Milan and Inter are not
neighbours. They are the same blood. They
live and work in the same neighbourhoods,
sit in the same bars and metro carriages: an INTER Milan’s Edin Dzeko (right) celebrates after scoring his side’s opening goal during the Champions League semifinal first leg
intimacy that on nights like these breeds an against AC Milan.
almost suffocating tension. This thing is only
fun if you win. came from pressure down the left: first Dzeko irrepressible Lautaro Martínez won a penalty thing: a distinctively Italian song of pure hun-
And yet for all the portents of a guarded and extending his leg like a periscope to hook Ha- that was overturned on review. In midfield ger and pure longing, a screaming and a plead-
grizzled game, this was a more vivid and enter- kan Calhanoglu’s corner into the net with Da- Sandro Tonali ran and ran until his studs ing, pyrotechnics that rattled the ribcages, the
prising spectacle than we had any right to ex- vide Calabria a helpless prisoner in his grasp. were blunt, trying to plug the gaps that were sort of roar that forces coaches to talk in sign
pect. Inter were more compact, more physical, Next Calabria was burned by Federico Dima- opening everywhere like quicksand. From language.
more experienced — almost three years older rco, whose clever cut-back was converted by the plush seats Paolo Maldini and Andriy A grand finish? That, of course, is still to
on average — and seized their advantage by Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Shevchenko sat in stony-faced judgment, a re- come. There was little of note to distinguish
moving the game on to their own terms. They Not even the most rose-tinted nerazzurro minder that whatever happens in the remain- the closing stages, as both coaches rattled
knew, of course, that even without Rafael Leão could have dreamed of a start like this. A flare ing 90 minutes, this is still a club with more through their substitutions and tried to win
(injured), Milan can kill you down the flanks. went off in the Curva Nord and the delirious past than future. cheap free-kicks. Romelu Lukaku ran around
So their back five put Milan’s wingers in a le- Inter fans danced around its hot pink glare As half-time came and went, Milan had at a bit. The noise dropped a little.
thal pincer, forcing them to play through the like it was the first fire they had ever seen in least managed to stem the bleeding. Brahim And Inter prevailed; albeit with the knowl-
centre where they were weaker, and weaker their lives. Díaz, moved to the centre to replace Bennac- edge that next week will not be the victory pa-
still after Ismaël Bennacer was forced off early. Milan were utterly lost in those early stages. er, was getting some joy in the No 10 position. rade it initially promised to be. Six days. We
By which point Inter could really have fin- Calhanoglu rattled the post. A harmless long Tonali rattled a shot against the outside of the go again.
ished the tie off. Those two early goals both throw was missed by Fikayo Tomori and the post. The noise in the stadium was a godly — The Guardian

S
HORTLY after the post World
Cup resumption Pep Guardiola
made some comments about
Kevin De Bruyne; sighing a little, look-
De Bruyne finds key hard, but found little joy.
And City’s night was heading one
way by the time Gündogan did some
bits, some stuff, some jinks and feints
ing sad, bemoaning by sly implication
the physical state of his champion mid-
fielder.
. as Real Madrid are locked down in their to make space for what he seemed to
know would come next. Gündogan
nudged the ball into the space in front
As motivational obiter dicta go it of De Bruyne, calculating the angle of
was brutally effective. The Belgian has
been sublime on the current winning
super - prison . . . the run, the space, the distance to goal.
There is a kind of networked thinking
run. This has been late imperial De in moments like these, an air-drop of
Bruyne, a resurgent wave, buried a lit- ideas. De Bruyne took two quick steps
tle behind the cold, hard numbers of and struck the ball with a lovely sever-
Erling Haaland playing (and this is no ity, snapping down on it with the out-
coincidence) just ahead of him. side of his foot, like a pistol hammer
It was De Bruyne who pulled him- dropping, and sending the ball always
self up to his full height at the Berna- into the same space, hard and low and
béu; and who seemed, with a single skimming past Thibaut Courtois’s all
moment of brilliance, to cause a shift consuming grasp and into the corner.
of the narrative pressure in this ongo- In that moment something seemed
ing two hander. to break, to become a little less heavy.
City needed it, too. By the time the De Bruyne was already having a fine
ball was rolled back to De Bruyne by game. There were shots, crosses, drib-
Ilkay Gündogan with 67 minutes gone bles. Haaland’s impact has been stun-
the Bernabéu had already begun to ning. But this is still City’s best, most
seethe and purr with a familiar self- forceful, most alluring creative player.
generating triumphalism. Manchester There is a sense with De Bruyne of a
City had spent much of the game to footballer entering the dog days of his
that point chasing ghosts, had gone to prime. He will be 32 in the summer.
half-time at 1-0 down, and seemed to This is not your Identikit snake-hipped
be losing themselves once again in the KEVIN De Bruyne fires home from just outside the area to equalise for Manchester City. elite athlete. On his off days De Bruyne
white zone. looks like a very fit geography teacher
Pep Guardiola’s team had strangled more urgently, seeing shapes, premo- Madrid had been a lovely soft sum- coronational stuff, the swirling white who does hill walking and enjoys real
Madrid for long periods early on. Ma- nitions, ghosts, flickers of disaster. mery place at kick-off, a powder blue scarves, the sense of self-celebration, ale.
drid took their punishment, held their And of course Madrid scored. Ed- sky fading to grey above in the small pomp, flash. No other venue in sport At his best he still has that rare mix
lines. City’s poise, their endless stitching uardo Camavinga made it, surging hole between those towering steel performs quite like this. It is both ab- of bullocking power and the feet of a
in midfield came to nothing. This was forward from left-back, rolling the ball struts. The Bernabéu is a Franken- surd and strangely jolly. fine point artist, the designated free
like watching an idea come up against to Vinícius Júnior, who let it run across stein’s monster of a super-ground, still Guardiola had picked his best team, radical in this team, and the closest
an emotion – systems play, clean lines, his body then shot so fiercely into the half-built, bandages swinging in the but also a team geared for control. Jack thing in City’s squad to a Madrid-style
grooved movements, planned phases top left hand corner that even with full breeze, a glimpse of gleaming steel sub Grealish and Bernardo Silva have one player.
– versus a kind of sporting dieu et mon view of the ball and the striking leg shell peeking through here and there. goal between them in the Champions City will now be narrow favourites
droit. Ederson could only flail at fresh air. Inside it is both hugely impressive League this season. Their presence at the Etihad. It felt fitting that it should
Towards half time Guardiola, Half-time came like a glorious break- and brutally functional, like watch- isolated Haaland just a little more, par- be De Bruyne and a single piece of
dressed for the occasion in a skinny-fit ing wave around the home stands. ing football inside a super-prison, or ing him back even more starkly as the brilliance, Madrid-ball in Madrid, that
undertaker’s suit, had begun to point City were being dragged into that a planetary-scale shipping container. chief goal threat. Haaland is 22. This made the difference.
and gesture and revolve his arms place again. There were the usual devotional songs, was his first game here. He worked — The Guardian
38 Sport Lesotho Times May 11 - 17 2023

Bantu only needs four

Leemisa Thuseho

V
ODACOM Premier League (VPL) log
leaders Bantu are just four points
away from winning the 2022/23 title

points to be champions
race. This after they beat relegation threat-
ened Galaxy 2- 0 at Mohale’s Hoek District
Football Association (DiFA) Stadium on Sun-
day: thanks to Litšepe Marabe and Maloisane
Ramasimong’s goals.
As it stands, the Mafeteng based outfit,
Bantu, are sitting at the summit of the log
with 62 points from 28 games played. They
therefore just need four points to mathemati-
cally wrap up the 2022/23 title. That means a
win and a draw will be enough for them to
win the title with a tally of 66 points.
As per the standings, LDF who are on third
position have 59 points from 28 games. They
are left with three games and their maxi-
mum reach is 65 points.
Third placed Linare are on 57 points from
28 games. Their maximum reach from the
two remaining games is 63 points, provided
they win them all.

If Bantu can collect four points in the last

games, they will have 66 points. That will be
out of reach for the other two teams (Linare
and LDF) in the title race.
Bantu’s remaining games will see them
face off with LCS on 13 May 2023 at the LCS
Ground, Maseru, and Lifofane at the Mo-
hale’s Hoek DiFA Stadium on 20 May 2023.
The other game played on Sunday saw
Linare outplay CCX by thrashing them 5-0 at
Maputsoe DiFA Stadium in Leribe.
Tšepang Sefali, Norman Kumatse, Retha-
bile Rasethuntša, Michael Mireku and Junior
Sephooana, each scored a goal in that match.
Other games which were supposed to be
played on Sunday were deferred to yester-
day (Wednesday) by the Premier League
Management Committee (PLMC) due to
heavy rains on Saturday and Sunday that left
most of the playgrounds waterlogged and
unplayable.
Meanwhile, if Bantu wins the league, they
will have won two trophies this season. They
have already bagged the recent People’s Cup
soccer tournament. They won the cup after
beating Lioli 2-1 at Setsoto Stadium on 30
April 2023. BANTU players celebrate victory in the recent People's Cup at Setsoto Stadium.

New winner for MGC Monthly Mug

Leemisa Thuseho

N
KUEBE Letsie has joined the list of win-
ners of this year’s Maseru Golf Club (MGC)
Monthly Mug competition after winning
the May edition of the event over the weekend.
The competition was played on Sunday at the
MGC course and Letsie emerged the winner top-
ping the score card with a net score of 76 points.
As the new winner, Letsie joins the other five
previous winners for this year’s edition.
The previous months’ winners include Masuh-
la Leteka who won the January edition by a score
of 71.
He was followed by Motlatsi Ramafole who be-
came the winner in February after a score of 71
as well.
In March the winner was Khotso Mothebesoane
with the same score (71). Last month (April), saw
Sa Li win the mug with 68 points.
The competition is held on the first Sunday of
each month and is sponsored by Vodacom Le-
sotho. MGC captain, Thabang Khabo, said the
weekend competition was played in inclement
weather.
He said due to the bad weather, the April win-
ner, Sa Li, had not showed up to defend his title.
“It is a tradition that previous winners show up
to defend their titles. however due to the inclem-
ent weather, the April winner (Sa Li) did not show
up,” Khabo said.
However, the rain did not stop others who
wanted to put their hands on the mug from show-
ing up. A golf game could only be stopped by se-
vere lightning and thunder for the safety of mem-
bers or heavy rains that can waterlog the course.
Khabo said the winner of this month, Letsie,
had a tough time winning due to the bad weather.
“The winner had a tough time getting his hands
on the mug. The average score for the previous
edition was 71 and the fact that this month’s win-
ning score came at 76 reflects the difficulties with
the course because of the rain and wind. Wind
and rain are some of the elements that play a crit-
VODACOM Lesotho representative Tšepo Ntaopane (right) hands over the mug to MGC Monthly Mug winner Nkuebe Letsie on ical role in the level of a winning score,” Khabo
Sunday. said.
May 11 - 17 2023 Lesotho Times Sport 39

Stage set for Nedbank

Leemisa Thuseho

T
HE stage is now set for the
2023 A Division Nedbank
Top 8 soccer tournament
semi-finals at the Bambatha Tšita

Top 8 semi-finals
Sport Arena Ground in Maseru on
Saturday.
The semi-final fixtures are now
confirmed after the successful
completion of the tournament’s
quarterfinal matches over the
weekend.
Sehene-hene and Likhopo were
the last two teams to book places
in the semi-finals after winning
their respective quarterfinal
matches on Sunday at the Bamba-
tha Tšita Sport Arena Ground.
Sehene-hene progressed after
they saw off Majantja 2-1 while
Likhopo are in the semi-finals af-
ter their 4-2 victory over Lilemela.
Quthing LMPS were the first to
book a spot in the semi-finals after
they thrashed Mzamane by three
goals to nil on Saturday at the LCS
Ground, Maseru.
The second side to advance to
the last four was ACE Maseru who
beat Limkokwing University (LU)
2-1 on Saturday, still at the LCS
Ground.
The first semi-final match on
Saturday will therefore see Ace
Maseru and Senehe-hene face off
in a bid to secure a place in the fi-
nal.
That match will be followed by
the second semi-final between
Quthing LMPS and Likhopo.
The final will be played on Sun-
day and will be preceded by a
match of the losing semi-finalists
at Bambatha Tšita Sport Arena
Ground.
The top four finishers from each
of the two streams of the A Divi-
sion League, namely the Southern
Stream and Northern Stream, par-
ticipate in the tournament.
The top 8 tournament will be
followed by the Nedbank Cham-
pion of Champions final in which
the 2022/23 A Division League
champions from the Southern
Stream (Ace Maseru) will take on
the Northern Steam champions
(LU). ACE Maseru beat Limkokwing University (LU) 2-1 to advance to the last four on Saturday.
This is meant to determine the
overall winner of the A Division (Champions of Champions and with M20 000 while the losers the runners-up will take home The teams (LU, Lilemela, Mza-
League this season. Top 8 tournament). will be consoled with M15 000. M20 000. Third and fourth placed mane and Majantja) that have
Nedbank has injected a total The winner of the champion of The winner of the Top 8 com- teams will get M15 000 and M13 been knocked out in the quarter-
of M250 000 in the two events champions duel will walk away petition will get M25 000 while 000 respectively. finals will each get M10 000.

Makatile takes World

Champs preps to France
Leemisa Thuseho Cycling Federation of Lesotho (CFL) pub-
lic relations officer, Malefane Morie, who is

N
ATIONAL road cycling champion, Ka-
belo Makatile, will jet out of the coun-
try on Monday for a one-month train-
ing camp in Brittany, France.
Makatile is attending the camp as one of
the beneficiaries of the International Cycling
Federation (UCI) and the Association of Na-
tional Olympic Committees of Africa (ANO-
CA) training programme for African riders.
He is the only Lesotho rider, who was in
February 2023, selected for this training pro-
gramme by the UCI’s World Cycling Centre
(WCC) in Africa.
The programme was initiated by the
above-mentioned bodies in June 2022 to
help prepare African countries’ road cyclists
for the 2025 UCI World Road Racing Cham-
pionships.
The championships will be held in Kigali,
Rwanda, in 2025 (the exact dates are yet to
be set). This will be the first time the champi-
onships are held on African soil.
The programme targets juniors and un-
der-23 riders. It is also aimed at increasing
podium chances for African nations at the
2028 Summer Olympic Games in Los Ange-
les from 14 July to 30 July that year.
Under the same programme, Makatile
camped at the World Cycling Center in Paarl,
South Africa from 27 February to 31 March
2023.
also one of the national team coaches con-
firmed Makatile’s trip to France.
He said the camp was expected to end on
16 or 17 June this year.
“Makatile is preparing to leave for France
next week Monday for a one-month camp as
part of his early preparations for the 2025
World Championships,” Morie told the Leso-
tho Times this week.
“We hope this camp will help him a lot
and improve his level of experience and
competitiveness. This is because he will (in
France) be training with more competitive
riders from all over the world and highly ex-
perienced coaches.”
He said they wished the rider could secure
more competitive training camp opportuni-
ties abroad because he did not get enough
competition at home.
“Since he has been going for these train-
ing camps, his standard has improved and
when he is here at home, one sees that he is
not getting enough competition. So, regular
camps and competitions outside the country
can help him a lot,” Morie said.
Makatile is the Lesotho 2023 roach cycling
and criterium national champion. He was
even the only rider representing Lesotho at
the recent African Road Cycling Champion-
ships held in Accra, Ghana from 8 to 17 Feb-
ruary this year. KABELO Makatile.
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Ramorebodi
LMPS wallop Liphakoe
LDF dismiss Kick4Life
returns to Lioli
Leemisa Thuseho against Matlama last month.
LDF assistant coach Malefetsane

L
DF fought back from a goal down
to register their first win of 2020
when they beat Kick4life 3-1 at Set-
soto Stadium yesterday afternoon.
The game started on a low tempo
with no scoring opportunities created
on both ends side until in the 41st min-
ute when Kick4Life were awarded a
penalty. Tanki Seoli made no mistake
Moorosi Tsiane and thrust his side in front.
The Old Europa side was hoping to
Pheko said he was happy with the win
but he said their plans were disrupted
by Toloane’s suspension since the rul-
ing was announced just a day before
the game.
“We played very well and winning a
game under such circumstances where
we were forced to drop a player that we
had prepared to use is a good thing,”
Pheko said.
“I was forced to drop one of the strik-

S
OUTH African Morena Ramorebodi has re-
turned to Lioli and has immediately been
tasked with ensuring that the club finishes
ourth when the season ends.
Ramorebodi was this week handed a six months
contract with an option to renew and is expected to
start his duties this weekend.
He joins Lioli from GLADAfrica Championship
side- Royal Eagles- where he was appointed coach in
ast September. He however, resigned a month later.
The no-nonsense coach had a short spell with
Lioli from January to June 2018 and returns to suc-
ceed Thabile Secker who also left the team late last
year after a short stint.
Lioli general manager Hlalele Matobako con-
firmed the appointment.
“We have agreed the terms with Morena and he
s expected to start his duties after LDF match on
Wednesday (yesterday),” Matobako said.
Matobako said Ramorebodi’s mandate is to en-
sure that the team finishes in the top four teams and
qualify for the Independence cup.
“A coaching contract is performance based and
his is not different, so he has been mandated to en-
sure that the team finishes inside the top four this
season,” Matobako said.
“We believe that is achievable because when you
ook at the log standings now, should we win against
LDF tomorrow (yesterday) we will shoot to third.
“So, it is doable.”
Asked if Ramorebodi would this time around stay
beyond six months, Matobako said things were dif-
erent now.
“So many things were happening back then and
ICK4LIFE
hat made itstriker Tšeliso
difficult Botsane
for him to stay.(left) takes we
However,
efender
past thatMoabi Tsie at
stage now Setsoto
and Stadium
we hope thingsyesterday.
will go our
way because we want positive results.”
During his time at Lioli, Ramorebodi’s finished
LIPHAKOE’S Katiso Thamae (right) blocks the way for LMPS’s Bokang Tatai during the Vodacom Premier League match at LCS Ground yesterday.
only second to Bantu and for the first time in five
seasons, the Teyateyaneng outfit ended the season
without any silverware.
bounce back to winning ways after
a 0-5 Sunday drubbing at the hands
of leaders Bantu. However, the hopes
soon disappeared on 71 minutes when
Thabang Rabi levelled the matters.
The game seemed destined for a
draw until veteran striker Mojela Letsie
headed home to put his side in front
after he was picked by an inch-perfect
MORENA Ramorebodi
Morena Moloi pass.
Kick4Life failed to respond in the dy-
ing minutes of the game and Rabi con-
nected with a Tšeliso Phera corner to
complete his brace.
The loss saw Katiso Mojakhomo’s
charges continue its winless streak hav-
ing last won last October after edging
Lijabatho 1-2.
The side went into yesterday’s game
sitting ninth in the table and a win
would have left them one place better
off. Mojakhomo’s side has won only
three, lost five and drawn four.
On the other hand, LDF leapfrogged
Liphakoe and Sefotha-fotha and nes-
tled on 10th, two places better after 10
games. The side failed to play last Sun-
day after its tie against Liphakoe was
postponed due to poor pitch condi-
tions.
Yesterday the army side was without
star midfielder Tšepo Toloane, who is
suspended after the Premier League
Management Committee (PLMC)
on LDF
are found him guilty after he refused to
take the man of the match award in the
hotly contested Independence Top4 tie
intentions as they opened the scoring as early ane for Machitje Mokobocho. On his part, LMPS coach, Tiisetso Molete,
ers to the midfield but after conceding, I
brought in another striker Mojela Letsie
and paired him with Rabi. That worked
for us and we equalised.”
LDF face off with Bantu on Saturday
and Pheko believes the win will moti-
vate him in that game.
“This is good motivation. Our last
game was in the Top4 finals and we
played well. If we have maintained that
standard, that shows progress. We are
playing Bantu next and we will take
their game like any other.”
He added that they are looking for-
ward to winning the last three games of
the first round.
On the other hand, Mojakhomo said
after the defeat to Bantu contributed to
yesterday’s result despite having pre-
pared their players mentally.
“It appears that our players get into
a game with certain expectations and
if they are not satisfied, they give up.
They lack a fighting spirit,” Mojakhomo
said.
After winning only three games
since joining Kick4Life at the beginning
of the season, pressure is mounting on
Mojakhomo although he says his em-
ployers are patient.
“My employers are not giving me any
pressure but I am ambitious. Therefore,
that is giving me pressure.
“By the look of things, I am forced to
reinforce the squad because even those
players I trusted would do well are not
performing well,” Mojakhomo said.

PLMC suspends Mohapi

eemisa
Leemisa Thuseho
Thuseho
as in the 8th minute. That was after Tšoarelo In an effort to refresh its striking force, said he was happy for the three points as that

TL
MPS collected maximum points yester- Mokoaleli cleverly tapped in a cross from his LMPS further introduced Mohanoe Sheleng had lifted them up into the top four teams on
HE Premier League Management Com-
day(PLMC)
after beating LiphakoeLDF 0-3 in a Voda- teammate Bokang Tatai from the right side of for Katleho Koaeana. the log standings.

ROOF WATERPROOFING
mittee has suspended coach,
com Premier League (VPL) match at LCS the pitch. On the 54th minute a chance fell for Lipha- After yesterday win, LMPS moved from po-
Motheo Maseru.
Ground, Mohapi for five games for assaulting Thereafter LMPS continued their domi- koe but Manosa Mapheelle opted for a low sition six to four with 55 points.
security
Theofficial
match prior
was to initially
his team’sset Independence
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same place play-off
but it was against Bantu to
deferred lastyes- back to level matters. ed by LMPS goalkeeper, Sekhoane Moerane. ing our games with a 0-3 is commendable,”
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onth. the 32nd minute Liphakoe coach Kabe-
punishment is in relation to the case in already
Ntobo doubled the lead for LMPS on the Molete said.
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