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Millennium Goal Society
We at Newsmakers & Noisemakers have always maintained that the famed pirates of Somalia are really not the worst villains in today’s business world.
At least with those guys, as long as you keep away from certain waters in the Gulf of Aden, you’re guaranteed that they will not bother you.
No. They are not [...]
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Adelani Ogunrinade
aka Vasco da Gama
Professor Adelani Ogunrinade must be grateful for the person who invented the suitcase.
With hindsight, it should have been clear from the beginning that suspended National University of Lesotho (NUL) vice-chancellor Adelani Ogunrinade was a man bitten by the explorer’s bug.
Some excerpts from his biography on the university’s website:
“At Wits, one [...]
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Crime
Reading newspapers nowadays has become a lot like reading a horror novel.
The pages are filled with chilling stories of rape, murder and other violent crimes.
This week, the Sunday Express front page carries the story of a bloodbath where two guards were killed when a gunfight broke out at their workplace.
Last week, the Lesotho Times carried [...]
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Opposition Youths
This week, it was reported that youths from opposition political parties in Lesotho accused a United States agency for poverty reduction of setting the controversial Land Bill 2009 as a prerequisite for aid.
They accused the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) of masterminding the proposed law and dangling US$362 million in aid as a carrot.
Of [...]
In proof that some things really will never change, this week’s noisemakers have appeared on this column before. Without further ado we give you the unrepentant two . . .
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NMDS
Back in August, when it emerged that NUL students had not received their loans, we wrote in this column that this was a clear signal that [...]
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Sam Mphana
In the United States, a popular anecdote says a dollar that comes into the black community stays within the community for about six hours, while in other ethnic groups like Italians or the Jewish community a dollar stays for 30 days, circulating.
Another guesstimate says a dollar will pass into eight Jewish hands before leaving [...]
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SADC Trio
SINCE biblical times, when Egypt’s Pharaoh ignored Moses’ demands for freedom until the plagues hit him where it hurt most, leaders have, over millennia, routinely ignored the pleas from the opposition, often at their own peril.
Could this be the case for some leaders in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)?
It was only last week [...]
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Tomaz Salamao
Tomaz Salamao, the man whose name sounds a lot like tomato salad, has left a sour taste in the mouths of this country’s opposition leaders.
After landing in the country undetected — on what we can only assume was a stealth jet — SADC’s executive secretary went on to make a lot of mischief in [...]
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Them who we
shall not name
WE at Newsmakers & Noisemakers have been known to call a spade a spade. We do not pull punches and we know no sacred cows.
Imagine our surprise therefore, when a few wise men at the association in charge of the beloved game decided that the media must not report about the [...]
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Can someone at the National University of Lesotho please explain why, in this day and age, the university did not have an HIV and Aids policy?
As the foremost academic institution in the country, it goes without saying that the university should have a comprehensive policy covering prevention, treatment and care issues among students and [...]
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