Muckraker

Hear, hear, hear! Parliament had an important discussion last week. The agenda was not unemployment, hunger, corruption, poverty or climate change. It’s your problem if you think those issues matter. Our MPs were busy with something special. They were pushing the Speaker to ensure they get the red number plates as a matter of urgency.

SOME things don’t need debate or consultation to settle. It is a notorious fact that Molise Tšeole never had the skills, manners or character to be an ambassador. That post has always been miles beyond his competency and dignity.

MUCKRAKER has been waiting for our MPs to explain why they want a M75 000 salary. She hoped somewhere in the sewage the MPs were spraying as justification for their attempt to rob us blind was some reasonable argument. Just something to show that there was some sort of method to their rank madness and …

Muckraker is still recovering from the Moshoeshoe Walk but her fatigue has nothing to do with the 116km she endured. The walk in the mountains – far from the rascals, perverts, thieves and pretenders of Maseru – was fun. The pain in her muscles was inflicted by the epic incompetence she witnessed over the three-day …

THE Market’s management is either high on something illegal or just reckless. They could also be either proudly incompetent or simply daft. Muckraker suspects they are high, reckless, incompetent and daft. That is a heavy burden to carry but self-inflicted and deserved.

You are wrong if you think The Market’s statement about the alleged rape in their toilets is just terrible public relations or some error of judgment. The statement reflects society’s attitude towards rape victims and women in general. That much is clear in the statement’s tone.

Is Kabi a real lekoloane? That is not a trick question so don’t bother scratching your stressed head. Even the goats in Matatiele, where he is alleged to have been initiated, know he is not a real lekoloane. They know what he did last December and are as disgusted as the other makoloane who rightly …

TWO weeks ago, Muckraker was mildly pinched for merely reminding some that Enrich Stores was not their goat. Little did she know that someone was busy planning to appropriate this dead two-legged goat to make it a national problem. And so here we are, on the verge of taking delivery of a dead goat. The …

Muckraker’s heart goes out to the 12 who have been expelled from the Basotho Action Party (BAP). Sorry, comrades! Move on in peace. Find or form a new political home. And there is also no shame in being politically homeless. Muckraker has never had a political home but her nyashi remains in good shape. That …

Wasco’s board of directors is either daft or simply high on something illegal. Picture this scenario. A mid-ranking manager reports to the board that she has been sexually harassed by the chief executive. The board instantly suspends the junior officer. Its chairman tells a newspaper that the manager was temporarily suspended “to protect her, owing …