Category : Scrutator

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

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...

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

  So Moeketsi Majoro has decided to harvest his final lucrative travel per diems by attending just about every funeral happening around the world. There...

  Dear Ntate Nkaku Kabi Even a human being with the heart of a corgi – or even one who has no heart at all...

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

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

  We are – as a nation – sitting in our last chance saloon. If we bungle the current reforms process, then we are doomed...

  Anyone with a fifth of a brain would have to agree with me that our debauched electoral system is partly to blame for our...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

  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...

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...

STRANGE things routinely occur in this majestic kingdom of His Majesty. Two recent incidents have particularly caught Scrutator’s eye. Two army officers, who were supposed...

I am informed by my Editor that Ntate Mothetjoa Metsing has taken serious umbrage with my comments about him last week. For those among us...

Generally, most businessmen are like chameleons. They change their skins regularly. They blow with the wind in any direction it goes as long as it...

  AFRICA is mourning the passing-on of its grand old grandpa of politics, one Robert Gabriel Mugabe.  Mugabe died in Singapore at the ripe old...