Sechaba Mokhethi
Lesotho Correspondent at African Independent
Investigative Journalist |MD & Co-founder @CijLesotho |Grantee: @pulitzercenter, @OxCIEJ, @the_ccij, @journalismfund |Fellow @amaBhungane @GroundUp_News 2025
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3 days ago |
groundup.org.za | Sechaba Mokhethi
SanLei Premium Trout, which farms trout in Lesotho’s Katse Dam under licence from the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA), overstated its donations to the community, a GroundUp probe has found. The company told the LHDA it donated fish heads worth R2.9-million as part of its obligations to the community in 2024. But the true value was R450,000.
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5 days ago |
groundup.org.za | Sechaba Mokhethi
60% of the country’s HIV counsellors have been laid off and the country’s TB programme is faltering Despite previous assurances by Lesotho’s Minister of Health that the country’s HIV response will cope without US funding, senior officials say testing rates are dropping and prevention programmes have been gutted. Only 12% of Lesotho’s R2.2-billion health budget was government-funded last year. More than half of the budget came from USAID and the US Centre for Disease Control.
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1 week ago |
ewn.co.za | Sechaba Mokhethi
A $31.4 million (about R562-million) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) project aimed at transforming Lesotho’s poultry sector has been terminated. The five-year initiative, launched under the American Food for Progress programme, planned to grow 28,000 poultry enterprises in Lesotho, boosting meat production by 40% and egg production by 30% by 2028.
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3 weeks ago |
allafrica.com | Sechaba Mokhethi
Villagers survive on meagre earnings while big companies make millions Lesotho's wild-harvested rosehips are an important industry for the small country's economy, providing thousands of people in rural villages with a source of income. But pay is lower than minimum wage, harvesters are not protected by labour law, and they lack proper protective gear to guard against the rosa canina plant's thorny branches.
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3 weeks ago |
groundup.org.za | Sechaba Mokhethi
Villagers survive on meagre earnings while big companies make millions Lesotho’s wild-harvested rosehips are an important industry for the small country’s economy, providing thousands of people in rural villages with a source of income. But pay is lower than minimum wage, harvesters are not protected by labour law, and they lack proper protective gear to guard against the rosa canina plant’s thorny branches.
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