Category : Scrutator

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...

Remember the bit about sources from the cyber mill? I mean when the online newsletter published a scoop based on “impeccable” sources revealing what had...

I HAVE not followed local football since my favourite team Sekamaneng Young Stars were booted from the top-flight league. But having been a staunch follower...

IF you want to see the largest number of pregnant children in one place, go to the National University of Lesotho (NUL). The last time...

WHEN the cat is away the mice play. And they indeed have been playing hard at some weekly papers. Imagine what I saw this week...

There is a new bug infecting people in town. The ailment is known as the “January Disease” and it is caused by a virus called...

What a hectic year it has been for Scrutator. This was the year I made the most enemies but as usual I am not regretting...

There is a new kid on the block! The three sisters have done it again adding a glossy publication to their stable. Scrutator is not...

VOILA! This week we could have finally cracked the Da Vinci Code. And I know I am not the only one who has been wondering...

ANYONE recall Chris Rock having a go at John McCain during the stand-up comedian’s Kill the Messenger tour last year? “I don’t need a president...

SO that’s why the young one was celebrating the departure of his erstwhile editor? He wanted his poison to get to readers undiluted. First, readers...

WHOEVER cobbled up the Education Bill (2009) must own up and take responsibility for the pandemonium that the proposed law has caused all over the...

WHAT do you call a man who, when he is paid to do nothing, salivates at the sight of skimpily dressed young women? Dirty man!...

DID anyone else see egg dripping from the faces of the people who are purportedly running our football? This week football’s worst kept secret was...

SCRUTATOR is worried sick if the editor of one weekly still has her tongue after her stupefying bootlicking antics. The kowtowing editorial that I stumbled...

Scrutator had a good weekend last week. There were graduation parties happening all over my village.  I drank myself numb but I am proud to...

SCRUTATOR this week nearly suffered heart failure after stumbling, while travelling on a public taxi to town, upon a midday news bulletin on one of...

SCRUTATOR   MEDICAL doctors in our kingdom must be very afraid. Yes, very afraid because the bone-throwing kind has hatched a creepy one to demystify...

SCRUTATOR   ONCE upon a time, football authorities in a beautiful kingdom had suffered enough ignominy in the beautiful game on the international arena that...

THE Caster Semenya saga, a wholly unnecessary brouhaha sparked by disbelieving losers, has now subsided after massive support for the South African teen sensation calmed...

AN interesting gathering took place in Mokhotlong this week. The meeting was converged to discuss matters of the heart and encourage people to stick to...

SCRUTATOR   CAN someone tell Scrutator what else is not happening at that grotto of a newsroom at the fringes of town? It’s one thing...

SCRUTATOR is inviting sealed tenders from companies that can manufacture a mouth zip. I want the zip for that blabbermouth of a sister from one...

SCRUTATOR   LAST week the comrades from the opposition were choking with anger over those freebies they call proportional representation seats. They said from Monday...

SCRUTATOR   ISN’T it amazing how people love things for mahala? By now Scrutator is sure everyone knows the opposition has called for an indefinite...