Muckraker

SOMEONE involved in that Roof of Africa thing thought it wise to hire mobile toilets from South Africa. Muckraker hopes those toilets were empty when they crossed the border because that would mean we would have imported faeces from South Africa. Phew! Muckraker prays whoever imported those toilets takes them back to South Africa full …

Enrich has kicked the bucket and pseudo-business experts are out in full force lecturing us about how Basotho cannot collaborate to build lasting institutions. They say they saw Enrich’s demise coming and they told us it would not last. Because theirs is glorified bar talk laden with conjecture and fictitious data, you can be sure …

The Israeli-Palestinian war has got some Christians conflicted. They cannot reconcile their blind loyalty to Israel (the Biblical one) with the genocide it is perpetrating against Palestinians. They think calling out Israel is equivalent to sinning against God. So instead of condemning Israel’s barbaric and unjust acts, they start pulling random verses from the Bible …

Muckraker almost fell off her chair when she heard that Simon Thebe-ea-Khale had been arrested for cattle rustling. The shock was not that he was a thief of cattle. Rather, what baffled her was that it had taken him stealing cattle to finally get arrested. Those whose cattle were stolen must have powerful ancestors because …

Someone should solve the following puzzle for Muckraker. South Africa is the country hit by bird flu yet its shops have chickin and its restaurants are still selling chickin. But Lesotho, the country that doesn’t have bird flu, has run out of chickin and its chickin restaurants have closed. Don’t waste your breath if your …

We have lots of problems in Lesotho. Obvious! Thieves are robbing us blind. Criminals are killing us for fun while the police chow us through bribes. Our hospitals and schools don’t work. Jobs have left the country. Our good-for-nothing youths are just a disaster waiting to happen. They are either complaining about something or are …

Those who think Uncle Sam is now safe from the barbarians at the gates are naïve. Mahao’s defection is a temporary setback from which the opposition leaders are plotting to recover. They are coming because Uncle Sam is holding something they cannot live without: power. And they will not rest until they get it. Those …

Nqosa Mahao has pulled a fast one on his opposition comrades to join Uncle Sam’s government. Muckraker suspected the bromance among the opposition leaders would end in tears but never expected Mahao to do the betraying. The lesson is that there is no honour among politicians and everyone has a price. The BAP’s price is …

The police this week told the Senate that 622 people have been murdered since January. That is 62 every month or two per day. You can be sure those numbers are either understated, outdated or both. And of course, only a few of those murders will be solved. Predictably, the police blamed it all on …

Mootsi Lehata behaved like a clown in parliament last week. Laughing like he was in a shebeen. Spewing insults as if someone had stolen his goats. He even used the ‘F’ word on Lejone Mpotjoane. “Moshanyana enoa a se ke a ntella. Se ke oa ntella sonny, f**k you,” he said in response to Mpotjoane. …