Category : Scrutator

Sello Machakela, the former labour minister, is indeed a “man of the people”. Apart from wooing crowds at the All Basotho Convention (ABC) rallies, Machakela...

What should we call a man who brings an Okapi knife to a gunfight? Do we call him a fool, a loser, or a just...

After meticulous verification Scrutator is proud to announce that Motsoahae Thomas Thabane is the winner of the coveted Mediocrity Award for 2010. Tom has also...

So Metsing Lekhanya, that 72-year-old former military ruler who has been clinging on to the leadership of the Basotho National Party (BNP) for more than...

SCRUTATOR is writing this week’s instalment from a hospital bed somewhere in Maseru and she might not be released until after Christmas. Doctors say she...

DO you recall those young zealots who once ran the Voice of Free Democrats, a dubiously named rug that thrived on masquerading as the ruling...

IF Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili is yet to read a special missive from Limkokwing University students, Scrutator has urgent and critical advice for him. Drink...

Will anyone raise a finger if Scrutator says despite all our pompous talk about sovereignty, we are a bona fide a province of South Africa...

IT WAS a story no one dared touch. It took a daring British journalist to write what had been the talk of the town. Grace...

IT was a weekend of celebration across the country. At least 2 200 graduates were capped at a colourful graduation ceremony at our glorified high...

Scrutator is still in shock after reading one struggling weekly that masquerades as the biggest paper in the country. The paper had a damn good...

YOU would assume Mr Bumble, the sadist beadle in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, had Lesotho in mind when he remarked the law was an...

Scrutator is establishing a charity fund for our lawyers after 58 of them were barred from practising because they could not afford their membership fees...

SCRUTATOR hears Mohokhare River has flooded. At first she thought a spring storm had pounded Maseru until news filtered in that Mokhosi Mohapi had not...

WHILE growing up in the village in Qacha’s Nek we used to play a game called “snakes and ladders”. It was a wonderful way to...

SCRUTATOR was not part of the team of journalists who met for a two-day retreat organised by the Journalists Association of Lesotho recently but she...

Here is an interesting tale about aged leaders. Ntate Mosisili meets Ntate Thabane with his youth league leaders on the 7th floor at the LNDC...

So, that sham of a marriage between the All Basotho Convention (ABC) and the Lesotho Workers Party (LWP) is finally over. ABC, which seems to...

WHAT brew are they imbibing at that dungeon of a newsroom? Is it the illicit hopose or qhoma-u-cheche from Upper Thamae? Whatever it is, Scrutator...

INDEED, South Africans have really shown the world who they really are. Forget about a beautiful World Cup. Forget about confounding pessimists. Forget about a...

EUREKA! A paraffin spring has been discovered in Ha-Mabote. Well, that’s according to a report in last week’s Lesotho Monitor. “There has been a miracle...

CRUTATOR is told that if you throw a stone into a crowd in South Africa you are likely to hit a car thief. If you...

SO the leader of the LCD kindergarten, Mosala Mojakisane, has confirmed he is very much out of touch with current affairs. He confirmed last week...

One of the sub-editors on this paper has a bloody nose as I write. That’s the price those who are supposed to be a newspaper’s...

So the major-general is clinging on. It’s shocking that after a decade of unbridled failure as leader of the Basotho National Party (BNP) the old...

  Does anyone remember the Lesotho Sunday News, a newspaper that was never to be seen again after its first issue of 20 pages of...

Even Scrutator could not have been so candid. We all heard it from the horse’s mouth. The chairman of the National University of Lesotho (NUL)’s...

So we have bullies in parliament. I hear one of them was threatening to re-arrange someone’s dental make-up at a meeting last Thursday to discuss...

FOR months now Scrutator has been complaining bitterly about people who masquerade as journalists. I have shouted my voice hoarse as these gatecrashers — because...