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Lesotho learners get smaller meals after Trump’s US aid cuts (opens the original)
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Malintle Tekane, one of three cooks at St Leonard Primary School, serves students pap and beans for lunch. There are no more fresh greens or eggs to fortify the meals. Photos: Sechaba Mokhethi GroundUp has found evidence that Lesotho’s school feeding programme is offering smaller, less nutritious meals since the United States terminated its funding for the scheme last year. After the cut in May 2025, Lesotho’s education authorities promised to fill the gap. Principal Secretary in the Ministry of
Lesotho MP to repay R6-million in tender fraud case (opens the original)
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Lesotho’s Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences says Jane Lekunya and his wife, Makhoase, were involved in a corrupt scheme in the agriculture ministry that cost the government M109-million. Jane Lekunya has undertaken to pay back M6-million and cooperate with prosecutors. Photo: Lekunya’s Facebook profile picture (fair use). A member of the Lesotho Parliament has agreed to repay M6-million (M1=R1) from an allegedly corrupt scheme involving the supply of fertilisers, seeds and pesticid
SA company sues Lesotho tunnel builder for M165-million (opens the original)
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The Polihali Transfer Tunnel intake under construction. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi South African company Esor Construction has launched a high court case to claim more than M165-million (M1=R1) for work on the Polihali Transfer Tunnel, part of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. Esor is suing the Kopano Ke Matla joint venture and its three partners, who it says accepted its tender for a M365-million subcontract. But Kopano Ke Matla has rejected Esor’s claim, saying there is no valid agreement betw
Lesotho, SA courts freeze assets in M700m clothing industry fraud case (opens the original)
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CGM Group factory at Thetsane Industrial Area in Maseru. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi. The forfeiture of assets in Lesotho and South Africa bought with illicit proceeds diverted from one of Lesotho’s largest clothing companies is being hailed as a milestone by authorities for cross-border asset recovery. Three months later, however, none of the assets covered by the forfeiture orders has been realised as respondents have lodged appeals. In May, courts in Lesotho and South Africa delivered two related
How FNB enabled people to join the SGK pyramid scheme (opens the original)
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Last week, scores of disgruntled members of the SGK pyramid scheme gathered outside the office of SGK Brand Image Store, registered earlier this year by Mampoi Makhetha. This is the same office where, in February, FNB employees helped recruits open bank accounts. Archive photo: Thetso Letsepe. On the same day that FNB Lesotho issued a “scam alert” on social media about the SGK pyramid scheme, which has since collapsed, bank employees were at an SGK office, helping recruits open bank accounts. Fr
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