TEMPERS flared between two MPs during a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) inquiry on the National Covid-19 Secretariat (Nacosec). The hearing had to be briefly stopped after a heated exchange between committee member ‘Mamarame Matela and chairman ‘Machabana Lemphane-Letsie. This was after Matela, the Socialist Revolutionary MP, felt that Lemphane-Letsie was shutting her out […]
SOME three months ago, ’Mapheello Rapita, a 53-year-old widow was surprised to see trucks off-loading stones for crushing in her vast field. When she went to enquire what was happening, she found that the truck belonged to Qingjing Groups (CNQC), a Chinese-owned company building the M91 million Mpiti to Sehlaba-Thebe Road in Qacha’s Nek. The […]
Muckraker spent weeks looking forward to Zodwa Wabantu’s show at Elibo Guest House. And it’s not because Zodwa has any thrilling talent. She is a lousy dancer. A one-trick pony. There is not much to her act apart from deliberately forgetting to wear underwear and teasing drooling perverts. Muckraker was itching to attend the show […]
Barely a month after the death of Ama Ata Aidoo of Ghana, another great woman writer of Africa and Kenya, Micere Mugo, died on June 30, 2023. About who she is, Mugo once said: I am Micee Githae Mugo. I am Micere, the one who troubles, the one who visits. The one whose name comes […]
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