Rallies for crumbs
A LTHOUGH its residents think it’s the best thing after sliced bread, Maseru is just a numbingly boring town masquerading as a city. The residents...
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Face-to-face with poverty
E ITHER the Prime Minister and Democratic Congress (DC) leader Pakalitha Mosisili is a good actor, out of touch with reality or just an honest...
Begging without class
I T was such a sad sight to watch Deputy Prime Minister Lesao Lehohla grovelling at the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) conference over the...
Year of the peasant
T HIS is the year of the peasant in Lesotho. Once again the peasants, so long forgotten, will have their time on May 26. They...
A little murderous country
S ello Machakela, the All Basotho Convention MP, is gone. He was felled by bullets whose source we may never know. Scrutator is saddened. We...
Pick from the rot
S O here we go again. The season of half-truths and outright lies is upon us. Phew! The stench of the horrible lies that office...
From the cross to the pot
S crutator didn’t know Christians in Lesotho, divided as they are, could form such a united front until the newly formed Democratic Congress (DC) tried...
Worry not DJ Waters
I T IS not surprising that the birth of the Democratic Congress (DC) and its ascendance to power has dominated the news this week. That...
Self-serving MPs
S CRUTATOR has never had any doubts that this Seventh Parliament whose end is nigh is teeming with rent-seeking, overrated blabbermouths and mere passengers whose...
Books can’t bite you
I F you drive into the village of Morija you will find an old building with the words “Erotic Salon” or something along those lines...
A pathetic plan and prattle
O NCE again our dimwitted opposition has been outthought, outmaneuvered and outshone by the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD), a party with a big body...
The owl does not have horns
S CRUTATOR is yet to understand how the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) founders decided that their party’s symbol should be an eagle. She however...
Please GO!
I T is now as clear as a goat’s behind that when it comes to our senior national football team we are perpetual failures. On...
What the hell do we want from SA?
Apart from wining there is nothing we do better as Basotho than mourning. We moan about everything: from our own government to the governments of...
Of turncoats and political prostitutes
A prostitute is a man or woman who engages in a sexual activity for payment. In other countries like Germany and The Netherlands prostitution is a...
When journalists play the ombudsman’s role
Scrutator did not know whether to cry or laugh when she heard that a local journalist was thoroughly beaten by a group of police officers...
University of cash and tosh
AFTER a meticulous verification of votes Scrutator is thrilled beyond measure to announce that Limkokwing University is the 2011 winner of the Mediocrity Award. Hooray!...
And the nominees are . . .
THE red carpet has been rolled out for Scrutator’s 2011 Mediocrity Awards. Next week we reward the men and women who have struggled through thick...
Playing lotto with public funds
E ureka! This week Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili found his voice to condemn the rampant corruption that has engulfed this country like a cancer. Scrutator...
Welcome to Sin City
THE rains have been late to come this year but Scrutator hears that Maqalika Dam is almost overflowing. Not with water but with the saliva...
The art of stealing
T HERE was a time when government officials in this country used to pinch state funds. Then, they used to steal a few hundreds or...
Cowards in our midst
I N the United States they used to lynch black people. White men, especially the conservative ilk, were at the forefront of this barbaric habit....
A fat excuse of a university
I T’S been only three years since Lesotho imported Limkokwing University from Malaysia, purportedly to educate our people. Yet in that short time Limkokwing has...
Dream on!
O NCE in a while there comes a time when the pipedreams of a very few misdirected people skip the queue on the national agenda...
Crap, tosh and other things
F OR weeks now Scrutator has been searching for the appropriate words to describe the bitter seniority fights between Chief Justice Mahapela Lehohla and Court...
Enjoy your monkeyshines while it lasts
R AISE your hand if the government of Lesotho paid for your certificate, diploma, degree or any higher academic qualification. Raise that hand high. Do...
Lousy teachers!
A long time ago you could end a debate by simply announcing that you are a graduate from the National University of Lesotho (NUL). Back...
Stuck like a vinyl record
R emember those vinyl records that were pushed into oblivion by cassettes which were later killed by CDs (CDs are also on their way to...
Cheap, cheaper, cheapest
A PART from the sunshine and air we breathe nothing in this country is as cheap as the youths. Some crumbs, a bit of liquor...
Bashing ‘Makoerekoere’
M akoerekoere! You know a radio station has lost the plot when it allows its presenters to use such words. A fortnight ago PC FM,...