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Why people from Lesotho cross the border illegally

Document offices across the country overwhelmed over the festive season with long queues

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News | 12 January 2026

Social housing set to be built at Salt River Market this year

Funding is secured, but about 50 families living in an informal settlement still need to be relocated

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News | 12 January 2026

Raising revenue from alien invasives

A pilot project in the Overberg aims to produce useful agricultural products using cleared invasive plants

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News | 9 January 2026

Protesters express solidarity with Palestine Action hunger strikers

“It is a grotesque irony that the law should be used to criminalise opposition to genocide rather than genocide itself,” says South African Jews for a Free Palestine

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News | 6 January 2026

Vandals delay urgent Khayelitsha sewerage maintenance

New homes for families living above sewer pipes have been destroyed

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News | 6 January 2026

Roof blows off Lesotho airport — after MPs raised red flags

A May 2025 report called for Minister Matjato Moteane’s head. But it appears to have been ignored.

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News | 6 January 2026

Future of SRD grant uncertain, says Treasury

Universal Basic Income Coalition says government’s proposals to link the grant to employment-related conditions could exclude eligible beneficiaries

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News | 6 January 2026

Lesotho army admits teenagers were sexually harassed

Opposition MP says there are more cases and calls for independent inquiry

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News | 30 December 2025

Three die when house collapses in Soweto

Confusion over whether area is illegally occupied

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News | 30 December 2025