The money makers
S crutator is fed up to the back teeth with that bare-bone college called Limkokwing University of Creative Technology that claims to be innovative about...
Category : Scrutator
A very silly MP
When young Teboho Let’sela stumbled into a plum position as the MP for Hololo at the tender age of 23 in 2009 Scrutator silently doubted...
Until donkeys grow horns
S crutator has news for all those who think 2012 will give this country a new government. The Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) will rule...
Paying for porn
K hele! The shenanigans of our civil servants never cease to amaze Scrutator. Just when you think you have seen enough of their tomfoolery one...
A shameless crook
Of all sins in this world nothing gets Scrutator’s blood boiling like fraud and hypocrisy. It’s worse when you add arrogance into the mix. Businessman...
A national disgrace
I n her few years on this earth Scrutator has seen and heard things that have shocked her. Some things have made her cry while...
Our hostility to numbers
Scrutator is planning to hire a team of experts and witchdoctors to investigate who the hell is spreading blatant lies that Lesotho’s literacy rate is...
The law is an ass
Scrutator is no legal fundi and has no reason to pretend to be one. But when she read a recent judgment in a murder case...
I told you so . . .
Each time Scrutator has criticised the National University of Lesotho (NUL) teachers, alumni, students and the like have ganged-up to pelt her with vitriolic comments....
Giving people hope where there is none
Scrutator was having a “Lazy Monday” when whispers reached her that a Free State man with roots in Lesotho was claiming to have cobbled up...
Drunken masters
Scrutator has never been in the business of playing “mother” to people or being a moral prefect for others but today, just for this once,...
Close NUL for renovations
Phew! Phew! So here we go again. That issue which gets the bile of many people churned out by that ridiculous excuse of a university...
A photholed legacy
Scrutator doubts any person will miss Tsele Chakela, the former transport and public works minister, who recently resigned after four years of bungling. The man’s...
Let the looting begin
T wo events in recent weeks are enough to illustrate that we have sunk to unacceptable levels of immorality as a country. First, there was...
Makhakhe’s shenanigan
T he next time you meet Kubutu Makhakhe, the principal secretary for administration in the prime minister’s office, remember to look out for a mischievous...
Spooked by poker
I f you are a high school dropout or someone not so smart who lost their money to Simon Thebe-ea-Khale’s thieving scheme called MKM, then...
A battalion of fools
R umour has it that while on a four-day state visit to Malaysia last week Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili received an urgent call from one...
Who let the lousy lawyer out!
The next time you hire a local lawyer, especially those who have been churned out by the National University of Laziness (NUL) in recent years,...
When you put kids in political office
What happens when two public officers who also happen to be politicians are too idle? Well, they either bask in the sun like lizards...
What comes out of potato fields?
Makoanyane XI, our Under-20 team, is being walloped at the Caf youth tournament currently underway in South Africa. First they were thrashed 2-0 by Egypt....
Let them drink tea!
We are a cattle country. That’s just how it is. If your ancestors did not have cattle, goats or sheep and you claim to be...
Send them to the floor, bo-’m`e
What the hell is happening on our roads? There is total havoc as construction workers dig up the road, fill it up with gravel, dig...
News is about people, not goats
What happens when a newspaper cares more about goats than people? Too often you find the journalists bleating about non-stories that have little connection with...
No more peaceful sleep for Siverts
For years now Scrutator has shouted her voice hoarse telling those who care to listen that our National University of Lesotho (NUL) is nothing but...
Pathetic, pompous and porous
Party owned newspapers in Africa have never been known for incisive reportage but that does not mean they should be pathetic Pravdas full of tosh....
The days of plenty are over!
What do you do when you find out that your monthly grocery is running into tens of thousands of maloti yet your favourite food is...
What happened to patriotism?
The good thing about democracy is that it dictates that everyone must be listened to. That’s fair. Its downside however is that sometimes we just...
Foolish fury and naked hypocrisy
Hell has no fury like a demystified bunch of graduates. For merely pointing out that standards at the National University of Lesotho (NUL) university have...
Compatriots, my sincere apologies
Nothing could have prepared Scrutator for the fury that her article on the National University of Lesotho (NUL) triggered last week. She was pilloried for...
Welcome to high school Prof
Our ancestors used to say the quarrel of lovers is the renewal of love. What the ancient proverb seems to suggest is that lovers need...