Category : Scrutator

STRANGE things routinely occur in this majestic kingdom of His Majesty. Two recent incidents have particularly caught Scrutator’s eye. Two army officers, who were supposed...

I am informed by my Editor that Ntate Mothetjoa Metsing has taken serious umbrage with my comments about him last week. For those among us...

Generally, most businessmen are like chameleons. They change their skins regularly. They blow with the wind in any direction it goes as long as it...

  AFRICA is mourning the passing-on of its grand old grandpa of politics, one Robert Gabriel Mugabe.  Mugabe died in Singapore at the ripe old...

Dear Ntate Molibeli I greet you in the name of love, peace and harmony. I also hope I find you well and in good shape....

I JOIN the nation in wishing His Majesty King Letsie 111 a very happy and prosperous 56th birthday, albeit slightly belatedly. Most of you stampeded in...

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THERE are many reasons why judges and magistrates are the most important public officers in any nation. I would shudder to argue that a judge...

Every now and then, a Mosotho emerges who makes me proud of my Basotho heritage.  Two Basotho have made me immensely proud over the past week.   Attorney General Ntate Haae Phoofolo is one...

Dear Maesaiah Let me state from the onset that I want you to succeed as a First Lady. I want you to be a great...

Can someone out there ask Ntate Thesele ‘Maseribane to stop looking for one Mothetjoa Metsing and concentrate on his core business of running the Ministry of Communications...

Bontate Mojalefa Letsoela and Matele Matobakele Accept my sincere congratulations over your well-deserved and merited appointments to the command of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) as commander...

Accept my belated Happy New Year greetings to all Basotho. I wish this nation a successful 2018 and a restoration of political sanity into our...

What a year it has been. A very adventurous one perhaps. Jolly good for some.  Extremely tragic for others. Consider Ntate Mosisili for instance? Who...

  This will probably not go down well with our numerous “lawyers”. Remember other than car wash entrepreneurs  and cabbage vendors, the legal profession employs...

FINALLY — the scoundrels, the scumbags, the filth — are in.  One can go further and borrow from Rodrigo Duterte, the garrulous president of the...

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to sit and do nothing”. This age old dictum of philosopher Edmund Burke...

Followers of this column will know of the two ungodly characters that Scrutator hates and despises the most – one Tlali Kennedy Kamoli – who...

  SOMEONE wrote to me last week asking why I have not yet commented on something called the Socialist Revolutionary Party (SRP) planned for launch...

NTATE Mosisili has this strange habit of disappearing from the political scene and then reappearing again.  The maxim that – now you see him, now...

What does Tlali Kennedy Kamoli think he is doing? Why is he wasting everyone’s time by applying for bail? Does he honestly think that there...

SO there we go Kamoli. Did you in your wildest of imaginations ever anticipate that this day would ever come? A day in which you...

AMID all the recent drama and the socio-political vicissitudes in His Majesty’s kingdom, some very important, albeit very hilarious developments, eluded me. When lot of...

The world must indeed be coming to an end? If you haven’t been praying, better start heading to the synagogue lest St Peter shuts his...

  THIS week, Scrutator was transfixed on events unfolding on the African continent. As was expected, Ugandan strongman Yoweri Museveni managed to get 62 percent...

  To Ntate Kamoli (I cannot address you as dear) “All required for evil to triumph is for good men to sit and do nothing”...

Let me start by congratulating you all for landing your plum cabinet posts. I cannot imagine just how happy you all are at landing these...

  Hope you are now firmly ensconced in State House after shafting Cyclone Tom back to his abode in Abia. It must be very nice...

  Yes we are hopelessly poor.  Yes, our little Kingdom is an impoverished backwater.  But that does not matter for now as we have proved...

Love him or hate him. You just cannot take away his now entrenched attribute as the ultimate survivor. He is indeed Mr Survivor. For the...