Africa-Press – Lesotho. SOMEONE involved in that Roof of Africa thing thought it wise to hire mobile toilets from South Africa. Muckraker hopes those toilets were empty when they crossed the border because that would mean we would have imported faeces from South Africa.
Phew! Muckraker prays whoever imported those toilets takes them back to South Africa full of whatever has been deposited in them. We might not make mobile toilets here but we already have enough human manure.
The question, though, is not who will take delivery of the waste but why Lesotho allows such BS to be perpetrated against it. Who the hell allowed those toilets to cross the border?
But hang on a second. It is easy to be outraged and claim that some of our visitors think so lowly of us that they feel obliged to bring their own toilets into our home.
That might be right because most of them bring everything from across the border, from food to beer to housing (tents). Many don’t even sleep or spend a cent here.
They make it clear they are only here because we have the mountains and the hills that make mountain biking fun. As far as they are concerned it’s a great inconvenience that those mountains happened to be on the other side of Mohokare River.
And that is true too because those are the only things they cannot make and bring in their cars. They won’t admit it but we also know they are here for our cheap but potent matekoane (we make the finest ganja).
But the critical question is not why someone brought the toilets but who the hell allowed those toilets to enter Lesotho. Of course, there is bound to be some smart-by-half nincompoop who will say something about capacity and standards.
You know that good-for-nothing dubious middle-class type milking it in Lesotho but is always contemptuous about anything local. Muckraker saw a few Facebook posts from that type haranguing Basotho for not meeting standards and lacking capacity.
You always know this is a lie because it doesn’t come with statistics or mention of the so-called standards. It’s the kind of balderdash sprayed to silence those with genuine concerns about local businesses and products being marginalised.
In the case of the imported toilets, such boloney is embarrassingly shameless. What can possibly be so special and standard about those toilets? Incidentally, that is the exact question someone at our border should have asked with a straight face.
They could have asked a few more before sending those scum houses back whence they came. So you think we don’t have toilets here or you are too special to use our toilets? Which is which? Okay, so you think if you use our local mobile toilets we will empty them when you leave and bewitch you via your dung?
Tell me, what is so special about your kak that it cannot be put in our local mobile toilets? Is your dung gold that you don’t want to deposit it at a neighbour’s toilet?
Since some of our people are going to use those toilets can you sign an affidavit that you will not be carrying their dung back to South Africa when this Roof of yours ends?
You can however be sure no one at the border would ask those questions because of the misconception that asking them would be tantamount to sabotaging an important national event contributing to the economy.
You are allowed to chuckle at the nonsense about the Roof thing doing anything for Lesotho because that is what it is . . . perfumed nonsonso. That is why you will not hear the specifics of what it has actually contributed.
Its contribution to tourism and the economy is just assumed to be huge because a lot of foreign passports were stamped and a lot of motorbikes crossed the border.
If the Roof of Africa’s contribution once included the use of local toilets now we have lost a few thousand maloti because the Roof people are bringing their own chambers. Oh, shame we have lost some foreign manure.
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