Category : Scrutator

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...

SCRUTATOR   IF anyone thought Scrutator was simply malicious, take a good look at the Voiceless this week. To their credit, the scribes at that...

SCRUTATOR This week I bring you the mother of all scandals. For some time I have not said anything about that Voiceless paper because something...

Scrutator   FOR some time Scrutator has been looking for that fly-by-night prophet, Thomas Ramaloko, who claimed to have found a bizarrely garlanded snake at...

SCRUTATOR OVER the years Whitehorse has presented himself as a victim of nefarious activities at PC FM. He claims his shares were pinched. As the...

Scrutator THE euphoria stirred by Egypt’s unprecedented win over Italy at the FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa quickly died down after the Pharaohs were...

Scrutator    JOURNALISTS who prune facts from news incidents to cover up their incompetence normally end up with egg on their faces when their stories...

Scrutator IN the media there are very few things that are as dangerous as a radio station in the hands of an excitable and riskily...