Tag: Lesotho

Members of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) are in South Africa under a cooperation agreement aimed at furthering air arm training. Ad Astra intern Nondumiso...

South African police minister Bheki Cele is widely seen as one of the most public members of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Cabinet being present at...

Namibian President Hage Geingob today (Tuesday, 31 January) chairs a Southern African Development Community (SADC) “extraordinary organ troika summit” where the regional peace and...

The efforts of countries in the southern African region to bring at least a modicum of peace and security to the troubled mountain kingdom...

A porous land border between the Free State and Lesotho is not only an illegal immigration and smuggling problem, but it also raises concerns...

A Lesotho Defence Force soldier has been demoted after soliciting bribes from people entering into Lesotho from South Africa at the Van Rooyen’s border...

Winter weather seemingly has no impact on illegal immigrants wanting access to South Africa with Batswanas and Namibians now also appearing on the list...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa turned back the pages to his time as Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) facilitator for Lesotho when he met...

The Southern African Development Community’s six-year-old reform process is in jeopardy. Lesotho has seemed from the outside to be fairly quiet since Moeketsi Majoro took...

Lesotho has become the latest nation to contribute troops to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission in Mozambique, which was formally launched on...

Among eleven recent successes listed by Eastern Cape Joint Tactical HQ for the Operation Corona border protection tasking, one jumps out as being new...

Landlocked Lesotho provides South African defence and law enforcement agencies tasked with border protection ongoing problems of which livestock theft is one. This was confirmed...

Another indication of the ease with which contraband and stolen goods move into South Africa comes from the Eastern Cape where soldiers deployed to...

The Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) through its Infantry Battalion 11 has confiscated 80 illegal firearms from community members especially those in the highlands of...

Lesotho soldiers last week apprehended a Mosotho man putting on the South African Defence Force (SANDF) uniform in Maputsoe town towards the Ficksburg border...

Border protection in South Africa’s central province – Free State – is allocated R88 million a year and 370 soldiers but does not appear...

Two Lesotho-born men residing in Matatiele, South Africa, were apprehended by the Lesotho Defence Force’s (LDF’s) 13 Infantry Battalion on Wednesday last week after...

A delegation from the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) arrived in Lesotho on Monday to discuss the apprehension and detention of two South...

Two South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers were apprehended on Thursday night in Maseru after allegedly crossing into Lesotho without proper documents, police...

Border security is by its nature ranked alongside rural security, sharing dangers including abduction and attackers escaping to a neighbouring country. Freedom Front Plus (FF+)...

South Africa might have new border management legislation in place but it’s not yet making an iota of difference along at least the border...

The US Department of Defence has donated personal protective equipment (PPE) to Lesotho, including face masks, face shields and thermometers. Department of Defence personnel assigned...

Moeketsi Majoro was sworn in as Lesotho’s new prime minister on Wednesday, a day after his predecessor resigned under pressure over a scandal involving...

Lesotho recorded its first case of COVID-19 on Wednesday, the health ministry said, becoming the last country in southern and East Africa afflicted by...

Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane will resign by 22 May, his spokesman said, adding he knew nothing of a report that the prime minister...

Lesotho has beefed up border security with the deployment of more soldiers to control illegal crossing into the country. There were already some 1 000...

Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s coalition fell apart in parliament spelling the end of his tenure and paving the way to resolution of a...

The king of Lesotho Letsie III assented to legislation preventing Prime Minister Thomas Thabane dissolving parliament and calling an election in the event of...

Hours before she was shot dead on the outskirts of Maseru, Lesotho’s former first lady Lipolelo Thabane made a surprising decision. According to a close...

Lesotho lawmakers and South African mediators said legislation awaiting aprroval of the king will see Prime Minister Tom Thabane, suspected of killing his ex-wife,...

Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane will not be told when to leave office, a national newspaper reported, resisting efforts to defuse a political crisis...

Lesotho’s government agreed with South African mediators and political parties to implement a “dignified retirement” for Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, a joint statement said,...

South Africa will pursue talks to restore calm in Lesotho after Prime Minister Thomas Thabane sent soldiers and armoured vehicles onto Maseru streets to...

Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane deployed the army in Maseru on Saturday against unnamed “rogue national elements” he said wanted to destabilise the southern...

Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane left the country, missing a court appearance at where he was expected to be charged with murdering his estranged...

Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane will be charged with the murder of his late wife, the deputy police commissioner said in the latest twist...

Lesotho police charged Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s wife with the murder of his previous spouse, the South African Broadcasting Corporation said. Police last month...

Just when it looked like things couldn’t get worse in Lesotho, the country was again plunged into uncertainty last week with the announcement by...

Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane announced his intention to resign, the SA Broadcasting Corporation reported. The alert on its TV news channel gave no...

President Cyril Ramaphosa applauded progress in efforts to restore peace in Lesotho. Speaking at the final Plenary of the Multi-Stakeholder National Dialogue on national reforms...

The Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) has commissioned into service a new H125 helicopter from Airbus Helicopters, replacing one that crashed last year. The aircraft, registration...

A recent police-led and driven operation showed another important facet of South Africa’s national border protection effort – livestock recovery and confiscation. The operation to...

The reform process in Lesotho is “progressing smoothly” according to International Relations and Co-operation minister Lindiwe Sisulu. Last November the Southern African Development Community (SADC)...

Home Affairs Minister Siyabonga Cwele and his Lesotho counterpart Minister Tsukutlane Au visited the Maseru Bridge Port of Entry on Monday. The walkabout was aimed...

The Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Air Wing has taken delivery of an H125 light utility helicopter from Airbus Helicopters, replacing a crashed EC135. The aircraft...

A year after opening offices in Maseru, the SADC Preventative Mission in Lesotho (SAPMIL) ceased operations having made "good progress" in restoring...

The South African National Defence Force's (SANDF's) legal division has offered to assist its counterpart in the Lesotho Defence Force. This emerged from...

Another step on the road to national peace and future stability in Lesotho came late last month with the convening of a...

Former South African Deputy Chief Justice Judge Dikgang Moseneke is optimistic appropriate solutions will be found for the political and security challenges...

Former South African Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke is set to lead the mediation team of the Southern African Development Community (SADC)...