Scrutator
Toilet manners and the long arm of the law
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 to the Law Society of Lesotho. And how much is the membership fee per year? Well, it’s only M500. Those lawyers who you see at the courts carrying themselves in [...]
1 Sep 2010 | 2 commentsSomeone give ‘Mr CEO’ a hankie
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 stopped crying since the Lesotho Football Association booted him out of the CEO’s office on Monday. And so the tears that have been cascading from those blood-shot eyes down those [...]
25 Aug 2010 | 0 commentsHey JZ, I know it’s you!
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 while up time away from our domestic chores. Scrutator was reminded of this game after she read what must qualify as the most atrocious editorial one can ever find in [...]
18 Aug 2010 | 0 commentsJournalists must shut their loud beaks
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 got a few tit-bits about how lousy it was. That is if the reports she read in the newspapers are to be believed. I am made to understand one of [...]
11 Aug 2010 | 0 commentsI have a soft spot for the charming boy
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 Centre. “Glad to meet you here,” Thabane says. “But Ntate Mosisili why do you always insult my supporters with those harsh words at your rallies”. “Well,” Mosisili says, “your supporters [...]
4 Aug 2010 | 2 commentsThe nyatsi has fallen from favour
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 have been the husband, filed divorce papers on LWP (the obvious wife) last week. Insiders tell me the couple had been sleeping in separate beds many moons before the divorce. [...]
28 Jul 2010 | 1 commentThe brew is damn good bro!
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 had never seen such “inebriated” headlines in that other weekly. If whoever coined those headlines last week was not under the influence, then the tabloid is certainly taking the competition [...]
21 Jul 2010 | 4 commentsJZ’s country of pretenders
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 united nation. They are, to put it simply, charlatans! And Scrutator wants to say this straight in the face of JZ when he visits Maseru next month. Our neighbours never [...]
15 Jul 2010 | 11 commentsThe miracle paraffin rush
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 of paraffin coming from the ground in the village of Ha-Mabote,” announced the tired tabloid in its vernacular section. ‘Mapule Maema, the owner of the field where this “miracle” is [...]
19 May 2010 | 2 commentsThrow a stone and you hit a lawyer
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 throw a stone in Botswana chances are you will hit a drunkard. In Nigeria you are likely to hit a conman. In Zimbabwe you are likely to hit a vagrant. [...]
21 Apr 2010 | 4 comments
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