tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26429984521878625772012-02-17T16:55:11.888+02:00blog about lesotho, that is inspired by some of the discussion on topix.net and other events in my beloved and much troubled Lesotho.Mooa Khotlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02204420106575644397noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2642998452187862577.post-34215542698210589932007-06-18T13:23:00.001+02:002007-06-19T13:32:21.531+02:00

This morning I heard citizen reports on Harvest FM that some soldiers had been relieved of their weapons by some thugs driving a vehicle with US Embassy plates. The reports continued that the soldiers who are manning the roadblocks are abusive and have been assaulting people. Later in the day reports indicate that they have "abducted" for want of a better word, some people from Ha Leqele.

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I spent this morning ruing the curtaillement of my freedom. And this evening having the most fun I have had in years! i just discovered You Tube. yes, I new about it. I didn't quite understand the point. Now I do, I found a video of Stan Getz and Trane playing Hackensack, and Trane playing "My Favourite Things". Rollins and Don Cherry playing "52nd Street Blues". Marsalis playing Haydn's Trumpet

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A curfew was announced in the Maseru District on June 15th. It is effective immediately. Ostensibly, it has been announced in order to free the police to contain an armed criminal element that is distabilising the capital city (and district?).The curfew will hit the low income group hardest, all street vendors will be significantly affected as thier right to free and thier customer's right to

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Yes, its been 100 days! Exactly 107 since election day. Mosisili has had our mandate for a 100 days, what has he done with it?I recall the following events from the last 100 days:A limp budget speechSADC report still unpublishedMosisili's South African ID is now in the public domainHeavy casualties in road incidentsMP's have started availing of themselves of the interest free loansChildren have

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I was woken up this morning by a call from a friend; his message "Qhobosheaneng is on fire. It is raging out of control, the fire brigade - if you can call them that, is unable to deal with it and our neighbours (South Africa) have been summoned to help."Qhobosheaneng was indeed on fire, the fire brigade's ineptitude was apparent as usual. They are not equipped to deal with any fire on any floor

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I am not quite sure what the definition of youth is, that is, I am trying to find a cut-off date, when does one stop being young? I know that I am not young anymore, I left varsity about 20 years back! When did I stop being young? Was it 4, 10 or 15 years later? What I do know is that then, like now, there did not seem to be any way for the youth to participate effectively in decisions that

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Matlosa and Shale of EISA state that:"It should be emphasised that Lesotho’s politics tends to be marked by zero-sum nature of engagement of politicians across and within parties. This is explicable, in part, by reference to the country’s poor resource endowment. A small, landlocked and impoverished Lesotho has always been mired by conflict-ridden politics, in part, because the political elite

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The issues around ho metsoa hoa NIP continue to be more interesting as more and more information is becomes available. I reprise my argument that both LCD and ABC undermined the spirit of the law when they stood for elections as virtually independents. Some of the stuff I found out over the weekend is very interesting even if unsubstantiated. Some of my associates indicated that:the LCD/NIP

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Last evening, I went to out to my favorite watering hole to share a glass of milk with friends, ala Rwanda, as usual we got round to discussing the subject of the moment, the very interesting times in which we live. Three points were brought up:the answer to my friend's question: Apparently Mosisili rules the VOTES and Thabane rules the people, thus Thabane can command the people while Mosisili

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Today I approved a few comments to my blog. I have not had a chance to read them all, I skimmed and scanned them to ensure that they were free of invectives which all of them were. If I missed any the error is entirely mine. I also received a call from a close friend whose comment was "I read this and knew it was you, go ahead deny it!", I also note that Nkokoto (not his real name) has accussed

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I am breaking a promise to myself:"thy shall avoid blogging about the stay away." My reasons for avoiding this topic are manifest, chief among them being that I have not had a chance to study the issues under dispute to my satisfaction. This principal reason has been set aside by two comments that were made one radio this morning; one comment was by Mohlabi Tsekoa, the other by an ordinary

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I am now writing the fourth installment of my blog, I had a different topic in mind until I asked myself the question, why do I blog? I started blogging as a reponse to topix.net, I wanted to give some substance to the discussions there, to harness and manifest the good, to placate the angry, to provide information to those in need, to change hearts and minds. In short, I wanted debate, I wanted

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I wrote the article below, on February 19th, the article was sparked by the debate I had with a NUL political science lecturer. At the time, I was not aware of the Lesotho Forum on topix.net and am still not sure whether it already existed, I was reminded of this article by a recent submission in that very same forum.I have also noted that some who read my last entry failed to read the title, "

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Today, Monday 12, March, at one of Maseru's surburbs and growing business districts the electricity cut-off at about 7:00am. This is probably the sixth time in the last two months that we have a power outage. Every time there is an outage the traffic lights up the road are also affected, just as they were today. Incredibly there were three police officers manning a "speed trap" 30 meters from the

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This blog was inspired by the comments and the energy that is the Lesotho Forum on topix.net. Topix has a major flaw, it has no rules, the discussions while raising important issues are directionless and the degenerate into insults. Despite this, various interesting topics have been brought up for discussion, I wish to single out the following:the role of the monarchyqualities required from a

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