I want to start straight. I am on record as opposing all sorts of hypocrisy and I equally oppose the insincerity, duplicity, and awkwardness of the so-called peace march that was led by His Majesty King Letsie III last Friday, as a piece of clowning.

“I am a detribalised South African,” said a good friend without a hint of the enormous significance of these words.

Life is, as it were, cyclical; and debates like fashions of clothing, come and go and come again. The wildcat, disarrayed debate about the current quality of our school education offerings is no exception.

There are two sides to the lobola debate. Some say it must be abolished because the tradition has lost everything it is meant to stand for. There is a feeling that this tradition is now about greed and not relationships between families, as was the original intention.

Mathematics seems to be a hydra-headed demon feared by students worldwide.

After surviving that scare where Network Africa listeners overwhelmingly threatened to turn away from the programme if it discontinued the customary cock-crow signature, the BBC editors of that programme not only retreated but offered that palliative of African proverbs contributed by readers everyday and extending the programme to weekend. Recently, presenter Audrey Brown collected kudos [...]

When I read a headline two weeks ago that said a Lesotho stock exchange was on its way, my first instinct was to chuckle, “why can’t Pharaoh leave us alone?”

If you thought the so-called global citizen action was nothing more than an ephemeral sabre-rattling, think again. Remember the Freedom Flotilla of aid to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza? Remember how furious was international condemnation of its murderous break-up by Israeli aerial troops, cowering even the usually inflexible Washington’s heart to, at least, the [...]

At least six persons in key positions are my friends and literally, the entire board is close or known to me in one form or to one degree or another, at the Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA), yet they all surprise me for either pretentiousness or ineptitude.

Rape contributes to climate change and environmental degradation.