Let us stay with the MKM saga and wring the truth out of it, and sculpt realistic and socially acceptable solutions for it and its likes. Such is the stuff of genuine national intellectuals and mature statesmen.

The word “snake”, and the image that goes with that (apparently similar in Islam and Christianity), has recently been returned to public discourse in yonder lands by those WikiLeaks revelations that the king of Saudi Arabia enjoined the US to “cut the head of a snake” – referring to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Is it possible to discuss the MKM saga without being one-sided, and without straddling the fence; or is it as unthinkable not to choose a side here as in the 1998 and 2007 post-election wrangles?

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.

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.

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?”

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.

When you listen to the opposition speak, it is all doom and gloom. Yet with so many unemployed youth, underpaid workers and teachers, disenfranchised hawkers and vendors, disgruntled middleclass professionals, hundreds of thousands of angry students, the room for opposition politics is enormous.

…Let me wage an incursion into your respite from sovereign respite from the cares on this ending, and the serenity of consideration drawn from our mental pilgrimage to the times of our forebears, in the coming week of our independence. I use the word “sovereign” to qualify your respite from cares deliberately, for we are [...]

…There are ways and ways of understanding what has since become fashionablyknown as civil society over the past 20 years. I say “fashionably” because many organisations commonly referred to as civil society today have always existed, and many of them qualified to be called civil society long before this became a catch phrase for attracting [...]