Category : Scrutator

  There you have it Basotho. You have,  with the narrowest of margins,  buried the Looney Tunes coalition and given birth to a new one....

THE events in this country since last Friday are indeed tragic. Yet another innocent person has lost a life to Commander Tlali Kamoli’s prosaic mindlessness....

HAVE our political leaders gone nuts? Specifically, has our Marshmallow Deputy Prime Minister Mothetjoa Metsing, gone completely bonkers? For those among us who are uninitiated...

THE proverbial aphorism that every man is innocent until proven guilty (by a legitimate court of law) should apply to Retselisitsoe Khetsi as to any...

Scrutator had hoped that last week would provide a definitive roadmap of where this country is now headed under our fractious political leadership. But again...

  FOLLOWING all the political developments around our Tom and Jerry coalition government over the last two weeks has left Scrutator with a very sour...

THE head of our army, Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli, is truly a fine humourist. If he were to change careers, Scrutator would surely recommend him...

Lesotho is never short of overzealous party fanatics, so Scrutator has taken it upon herself to keep them in check, otherwise no one else would....

So All Basotho Convention (ABC) party youths decided to “go public” about their indignation with the media for daring to wash party leader Prime Minister...

That there are no permanent friends in politics sounds like a cliché now. But this week, in an around parliament, it was clear there are...

Acting chief justice Tšeliso Monaphathi hit the proverbial nail on the head when he remonstrated against “pseudo legal practitioners” that have swamped the ranks of...

THE year 2014 promises to be more and more eventful as days roll by. Addressing All Basotho Conven­tion (ABC) supporters in Thaba- Phechela over the...

  W elcome to 2014, optimists are calling it “20-for-me”. Scrutator hopes 2014 will bring good tidings her way. In anticipation of the good things...

  A s the curtain comes down on an eventful 2013, I have been debating with myself about who the best candidate for the coveted...

S outh Africans are at it again! Surely the late great Madiba deserves better than we saw at his memorial at the FNB stadium on...

  W hat exactly is happening with Lehlohonolo Scott? For those still stuck in medieval times and don’t follow  Facebook or Twitter, Scott is that...

THEY say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the trouble is ugliness lies there for all to see. It’s kind of “in...

   T his is a fact not acknowledged by many Basotho, but Scrutator is a very good Samaritan. Ever since the launch of this column,...

Scrutator believes a society must be able to introspect and even laugh at itself for it to correct its vices and move forward. It is...

It was quite refreshing for Scrutator to sit through such a stimulating event and hear Lesotho’s honest business people ring some home truths about our...

SCRUTATOR thinks the list of traffic offences needs a makeover or an addendum. Whether you are walking or driving along Kinsgway, either way, you won’t...

SCRUTATOR thinks present humanity in our epoch qualifies in that television series as one of the world’s dumbest bunch of the earth’s inhabitants. It’s all...

Scrutator yearns for the days during her childhood when drivers were still looked up to as professionals. Back then, in back-of-beyond Qacha, it was that...

  S omeone should be sleeping on the job at Lesotho Television. I am not talking about news bulletins which have improved, somewhat, with the...

  Don’t rush to be thankful until the cattle herded by a fool are safely back in the kraal. That’s a pregnant, witty and precise adage from...