Maesaiah Thabane as been ordered to avoid making contact with witnesses and to regularly report to the police station.

According to police, the net is closing in on Thabane who resigned from power in May.

This comes after Thomas Thabane officially stepped down as Lesotho’s PM earlier this month.

The message is ahead of Ramaphosa’s anticipated address to the nation on Sunday on developments in South Africa’s risk-adjusted strategy to manage the spread of COVID-19

The sovereignty of Lesotho is under scrutiny once more this week, but Tito Mboweni seems to have switched corners over the past few months.

Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane has reportedly given in to pressure and resigned his post as leader of the landlocked kingdom.

Planning to step down from his role in July, Prime Minister Thabane said that old age – not a murder allegation – motivated the decision.

Lesotho is the last country in Africa to record a positive case, and it is likely that their lockdown will now be extended.

The prime minister said he expected to submit his resignation letter on Wednesday but did not give a precise date for stepping down.

Desperate citizens stranded in South Africa have taken to jumping the Lesotho border risking their lives to get home.

Prime Minister Thomas Thabane said that he is lacking the energy required for the role as he announced he would step down by the end of July.

Embattled Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane looks to be on his way out of office.

Lesotho’s embattled Prime Minister Thomas Thabane is in a desperate bid to cling on to power.

The prohibition of alcohol has also been enforced in the Mountain Kingdom.

A South African envoy arrived in Lesotho late on Sunday night.

Prime Minister Tom Thabane says he is deploying the army into Lesotho streets to “avoid putting the country in danger”.

Prime Minister Tomas Thabane is accused of ordering a hit on his estranged wife in 2017, and made a brief court appearance on Monday

The prime minister was a no-show in court for the case of his ex-wife’s murder.

The 80-year-old statesman will be formally charged on Friday.

Maesiah Thabane appeared in a Lesotho court on Wednesday, to enter her plea and apply for bail.

“Right now she is still being questioned,” police said

SAPS are hunting for a group of zama-zamas who are accused of hurling stones at a group of Lesotho nationals working in the Roodepoort area.

Tom Thabane has buckled under pressure and will step out of the political arena ‘soon’.

Police would like to question Lesotho’s first lady Maesiah Thabane in connection with the murder of her husband’s former wife.

Tito Mboweni has a few radical ideas, but this might top the lot. SA’s finance minister wants Lesotho to be this country’s ‘tenth province’.