Lesotho’s asset recovery unit shut down after implicating top officials
The task team had begun exposing questionable state land allocations and widespread corruption
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
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
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
News | 22 October 2025
Hundreds of jobs at stake at Lesotho diamond mine
25% state-owned Kao Mine could shut down “within weeks”
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
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
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
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
Brief | 26 September 2025