Articles for Sechaba Mokhethi

US and Lesotho strike five-year health funding pact

Abrupt US aid cuts earlier this year caused havoc in the country’s health system

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News | 19 November 2025

Lesotho community left in ruins by highway project

The road, built by a Chinese company, has improved access to Qacha’s Nek but also caused damage and displacement

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News | 12 November 2025

Lesotho sheds textile jobs amidst US trade uncertainty

Hippo Knitting has laid off 295 workers and plans to retrench another 420 in January

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News | 11 November 2025

Workers march in Maseru as AGOA uncertainty threatens thousands of jobs

Protest, originally banned, proceeded after police minister gave it the go-ahead

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News | 1 November 2025

Lesotho’s asset recovery unit shut down after implicating top officials

The task team had begun exposing questionable state land allocations and widespread corruption

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News | 31 October 2025

Police block protest by textile workers in Lesotho

Unions accuse police of acting unlawfully by denying permission for a protest march against job losses

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News | 28 October 2025

Call to scrap passports between Lesotho and SA

Lesotho’s opposition Basotho Action Party has launched a campaign to ease cross-border travel using national identity cards

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News | 23 October 2025

Former leaders of Lesotho women’s rights organisation accused of corruption

Two senior office-bearers of Women and Law are accused of misappropriating R5.6-million in donor funds

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News | 22 October 2025

Hundreds of jobs at stake at Lesotho diamond mine

25% state-owned Kao Mine could shut down “within weeks”

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News | 21 October 2025

Lesotho permit: A lifeline for Basotho workers facing collapse of textile industry

Announcement comes weeks after hundreds of undocumented workers were arrested in SA

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News | 11 October 2025

Factory workers to march as Lesotho’s textile jobs hang by a thread

Unions demand the renewal of AGOA and lower tariffs on exports to the US

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News | 8 October 2025

Lesotho families, moved to make way for a dam, lose court battle

20 years after they were displaced by the Mohale Dam, court tells families to share their compensation payout

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News | 7 October 2025

AGOA likely to be renewed for one year, says Lesotho trade minister

African Growth and Opportunity Act has previously been renewed for a decade at a time

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Brief | 26 September 2025

Trump’s tariffs could cost Lesotho 30,000 jobs, the IMF warns

Garment exports make up 80% of the country’s exports to the United States

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Brief | 26 September 2025

Malawian politician, fired in 2022, appointed to Lesotho Highlands Water Commission

Helen Buluma’s appointment as deputy CEO of the National Oil Company of Malawi was declared invalid in 2022

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News | 23 September 2025

Villagers lodge complaint with African Development Bank against Lesotho Highlands Water Project

Grievances listed include unsatisfactory relocations, damaged homes, a lack of compensation and loss of livelihoods caused by the project

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News | 22 September 2025