…This is the question that is triggered by the likes of elegant city park renewals and road construction works, which seem to fall short of onlookers’ expectations and only ignite public fury, at a time when apparent national priorities like health and education remain resource-starved. Certain African countries, notably Zambia and Nigeria in recent years, [...]

…Public roads construction, especially of highways and city roads, has become something of an offensive enterprise to the eye of an average, non-partisan citizen in our times here. It has even, with the same stench of repugnance, become an oddly localised pursuit – from those days when it was a peculiarly foreign niche. In the [...]

…What do these have in common? Well, they are all subjects of the enigmatic stories of last week that helped us close the month of August in style. Bishop Philip Mokuku emeritus of the Anglican Church in Maseru is a celebrated mediator in national politics of the transition years that saw Lesotho return to constitutional [...]

It was here that I started this column some ten years ago, and deliberately named it after the NUL Transformation Forum of the time, following that by taking annual stock of progress the same way that I did with the National Vision 2020 for the first few years. I have since stopped the annual audits [...]