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NUL Innovation Hub bolsters patent power for local innovators
Public Eye
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July 1, 2025
MOSA MAOENG MASERU – The National University of Lesotho (NUL) Innovation Hub is now better equipped to help local innovators secure patents after specialized training in drafting and prosecution, advancing the country’s strategy to leverage...
A path to growth and integration: SA’s commitment to AfCFTA amidst regional challenges
Public Eye
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July 1, 2025
A platform where even landlocked nations like Lesotho will thrive in a united continental market TEBOHO KHATEBE MOLEFI South Africa has reaffirmed its commitment to harnessing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to unlock new growth...
Starlink Promises Connectivity For All
MENAFN
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July 1, 2025
(MENAFN- The Post) MASERU – Starlink, a tech company owned by billionaire Ellon Musk, says it plans to create 50 000 indirect jobs and a further 10 000 direct jobs when fully operational in Lesotho. This was disclosed during the company's official...
IQON Business Services to Showcase Innovative Steel, Drone & Tech Solutions at Big 5 Construct South Africa 2025
Engineering News
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IQON Business Services is proud to announce its participation as an exhibitor at Big 5 Construct South Africa 2025, taking place from 18 to 20 June 2025 at the Gallagher Convention Centre, Johannesburg. Visitors can engage with IQON at Hall 5,...
African Science Academy graduates 50 STEM girls
Business and Financial Times
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June 11, 2025
The African Science Academy (ASA), an all-girls advanced-level school specialising in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), has celebrated the graduation of its ninth cohort at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic...
Nedbank Lesotho’s Market Day draws strong interest
Sunday Express
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June 9, 2025
Moroke Sekoboto NEDBANK LESOTHO held its first-ever market day at Maseru Mall yesterday, drawing attention to a broad selection of its new services designed to keep pace with customers’ changing needs. Attendees were introduced to a variety of...
Angola vs Lesotho Prediction and Betting Tips | June 8th 2025
Sportskeeda
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June 7, 2025
Angola and Lesotho return to action in the 2025 COSAFA Cup when they lock horns at the Seisa Ramabodu Stadium on Sunday. The reigning champions kicked off their title defence with a somewhat disappointing stalemate against Namibia in midweek while...
Rays of Hope Forum: Bringing Hope in Africa and Beyond
IAEA
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Cancer patients around the world are being given better access to life-saving care thanks to support from the IAEA’s Rays of Hope initiative, participants at a Rays of Hope Forum heard. Rays of Hope aims to widen access to life-saving cancer care...
Gelant aims to defend title as Kipkorir targets Sub-27 at Absa RUN YOUR CITY DURBAN 10K
South Africa Today
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July 1, 2025
As the defending champion, Elroy Gelant will be under the spotlight when he lines up for the Absa RUN YOUR CITY DURBAN 10K on Sunday 13 July. He’ll be joined by Kenya’s Vincent Kipkorir – the fastest man in the field – who will also be among the...
LEC spent M6m on incompatible meters
Lesotho Times
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June 30, 2025
…PAC orders their return Mohloai Mpesi THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has ordered the Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) to return meters worth M6 million, which are said to be incompatible with the company’s systems. The development surfaced...
Trump Administration Lowers Expectations for Trade Deals as Tariff Deadline Approaches
TIME Magazine
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July 1, 2025
Less than 10 days till President Donald Trump’s higher “reciprocal” tariffs kick back in for most of the world, the U.S. looks like it may emerge with just a handful of trade deals. The President shocked the world and roiled markets on April 2,...
French President Emmanuel Macron labels tariffs as “blackmail”
The Independent
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June 30, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Seasonal Depression
MENAFN
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July 1, 2025
(MENAFN- The Post) When the seasons shifts, so can your mood-so let's talk about it Many people experience what is commonly known as winter blues. It's mainly the results of our bodies' failure to adjust to the new clock. Research says that...
Being a sangoma: The art of spiritual mathematics
The Citizen (South Africa)
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July 1, 2025
The sangoma calculates outcomes, interprets dreams and prescribes action through discernment and ancestral consultation. Before one throws bones or ties the red cloth of the initiated, there is the calling – ubizo in isiZulu. And it rarely begins...
Millions of people dead. On purpose.
Patheos
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July 1, 2025
• “USAID cuts could lead to 14 million deaths over the next five years“ More than 14 million people could die over the next five years because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, according to...
‘I’m going to send letters’: the deadline for Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ trade tariffs is looming
The Conversation
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July 1, 2025
US President Donald Trump’s 90-day pause on implementing so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on some 180 trading partners ends on July 8. How are countries responding to the threat, and will the tariffs be re-applied from July 9? What the US thinks...
LuCan Labs: pioneering cannabis testing excellence in Africa
Lesotho Times
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June 27, 2025
Mohalenyane Phakela WHEN Lesotho made history in 2017 by becoming the first African country to legalize cannabis production, it signalled more than just a shift in agriculture—it opened the door to a budding new industry with global potential....
Louis Moholo-Moholo, a lion of South African jazz who used his drums to find freedom
Monroe County Herald - Wisconsin
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June 30, 2025
Gwen Ansell, University of Pretoria, The Conversation Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was born in St Monica’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa on 10 March 1940. He’d not have appreciated that introduction, once chastising an interviewer: Ah, no! My...
It’s time to start taxing the super-rich to finance development
Context
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Inequality has reached obscene levels, but a major financing for development conference (FFD4) provides a chance for governments to change tack. Amitabh Behar is executive director of Oxfam International A decade ago, world leaders made ambitious...
Volatile Waters: Federal and State Water Politics in the California Delta
Engagement
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June 24, 2025
By Ryan Christopher Jones, Doctoral Candidate, Harvard University On President Trump’s first day in office for the second time, he signed twenty-six executive orders, including one dramatically titled “Putting People Over Fish: Stopping Radical...