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  Happy New Year to you all fellow Basotho. I hope you had a good Christmas and New Year break. Let’s hope that Moruo brings us its promised prosperity in…

  Ntate Sam did the right thing to want to speak to as wide a cross section of society as possible upon assuming office.  As per his inauguration speech, he has…

  Once again, kudos to Ntate Sam for keeping his word and appointing a lean cabinet of 15 ministers and for merging all those other superfluous portfolios. Once again, this…

  Unless you have the brain of a mouse, you should be on cloud nine right now.  You should feel proud to be a Mosotho. At least we now have…

  Anyone who has associated with Ntate Mathibeli Mokhothu in one way or another will attest that he is a very good man. Immensely handsome, suave, erudite to an extent…

  You really have to be an eternal optimist to believe that the All Basotho Convention (ABC) – the party of Motsoahae Thomas Thabane – shall ever rise from the ashes…

Dear Right Honourable Prime Minister,  Ntate Sam Let me be very honest with you.  Up until the morning of 6 October 2007, my resolve was to cast my ballot for…

  T he day we have been clamouring for is finally upon us. Tomorrow we all throng polling stations to make a decision that binds us until 2027. That is…

  So Moeketsi Majoro has decided to harvest his final lucrative travel per diems by attending just about every funeral happening around the world. There wouldn’t have been anything wrong…

  Dear Ntate Nkaku Kabi Even a human being with the heart of a corgi – or even one who has no heart at all –  cannot fail to be…

  Dear Ntate Teboho Mojapela Hope I find you well. The campaign period towards political elections is normally dubbed the silly season.  This because it is generally accepted as the…

Ahoi fellow Vasotho. I am back from my sojourn in Kenya or the land of Maasai after monitoring the elections there. I spent a good five weeks there during which…

My heart is very sore. I have no option but to bring forward the date of my resumption of work. This to mourn my friend, brother, uncle, nephew, cousin and…

My fellow Basotho, it’s has been a rough year. Allow me to go and rest. I am truly tired. It has been a very rough but also exhilarating year. Exhilarating…

Of all the things we can be accused of, no one can point a finger at us, Basotho, for lacking in political humour. Lesotho’s politicians are never a big yawn.…

If anyone needs any evidence that our police commissioner, Holomo Molibeli, is now a permanent resident of cloud cuckoo land, look no further than his self-congratulatory press conference over a…

Enough is enough. This Majestic Kingdom cannot continue being held hostage to the endless infighting and skullduggery of ABC politicians at the expense of development and progress. It’s high time…

  We are – as a nation – sitting in our last chance saloon. If we bungle the current reforms process, then we are doomed forever. So, I will remain…

  Anyone with a fifth of a brain would have to agree with me that our debauched electoral system is partly to blame for our perennial economic and political woes.…

I nearly chuckled my lungs out at a story in this publication about the possible deregistration of 10 political parties for various infractions. Some of the biggest infractions by these…

  There you have it.  Machesetsa Mofomobe is at it again. He thinks North Korea can bankroll his moribund Basotho National Party (BNP)?  He also things North Korea can replace…

  You have to give it up to Ntate Phoofolo. He is a very decent man. A prolific, erudite, eloquent and sagacious lawyer. Very humble, serene, unflustered and always courteous.…

What do you do when you encounter a complete ignoramus and a completely brainless moron masquerading as a deputy foreign affairs minister? What do you do when you encounter a…

  Who exactly does the crooked Yan Xie — aka John — think he is? And why do Basotho continue letting him get away with murder. Xie is a bad…

Dearest Ntate Majoro I sincerely hope I find you well. I also hope you have settled down well in State House. I no longer see you these days at our…

  HI mama Masefaro As a woman, there is no doubt you are well endowed in terms of physical attributes. You may not be extraordinarily beautiful. But you are certainly…

NEVER in my life had I ever thought I would live to see this moment. A moment in which our two political behemoths would realise the need to come together…

Greetings to you all fellow Basotho and any others from wherever who are locked down with us.  How is your house imprisonment? How is life without football, without excursions to…

  I honestly don’t know where to start. Things are unravelling so fast in his Majesty’s Majestic Kingdom. Looks like the coronavirus shall be with us for a while; Ntate…

YOU have to give it to Ntate Motsoahae. The old codger is a shrewd political operator.  He knows his political stuff and how to outfox opponents. All along, Ntate Motsoahae…