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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Abandoned and disowned by his father at a young age, life seemed headed for the doldrums for Advocate Makhetha Mots\u030coari. The Sesotho adage \u201cmohale o tsoa maroleng\u201d fits well into the successful lawyer\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n

Despite the childhood hardships, he has grown to become a top lawyer and businessman, running a travel and tourism venture, family counselling business and is a farmer of reckon.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a person to shine, he has to experience some pain,\u201d says Advocate Mots\u030coari, who is also the Chairperson of the Police Compliance Authority (CPA) and Chairperson of Lesotho Council of Tourism.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt first I saw nothing wrong that my father was rarely at home and my mother was doing odd jobs to make ends meet because I was too young to understand,\u201d Advocate Mots\u030coari says.<\/p>\n

The 42-year-old lawyer says he learned to mend shoes because his mother could not afford to buy him new ones when he was in primary school. \u201cWhen the shoes became worn out beyond repair I started going to school wearing gumboots and when they became torn I learned how to patch them.<\/p>\n

This lessened my mother\u2019s burden because now all she had to concentrate on was to bring food in the house,\u201d he recalls. It was at this time the young Mots\u030coari started a small commercial farming business, growing vegetables from the family\u2019s small garden and selling the produce in his rural Matelile village, in Mafeteng district.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother never told us about what was happening with our father. We were six siblings.<\/p>\n

He would come home after a while and we would see him at a distance and happily run to meet him, jumping around him as we helped carry his luggage,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

He remembers having no money to pay school fees after passing Standard Seven. The school principal facilitated for the National Manpower Development Secretariat (NMDS) to pay for his fees from Form A to Form C.<\/p>\n

It was after he passed Form C and was going to another school when he discovered why his father was behaving errantly. \u201cMy mother did not tell me that there was a problem between the two of them, but told me to go to my father\u2019s workplace to ask for money,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n

His father worked in the mines in Welkom, Free State, at the time. \u201cThis time things were really tough that my mother could not put a cent on the table hence she sent me to South Africa to meet my father,\u201d he reminisces.<\/p>\n

When he arrived at the mine, things took a dark turn. \u201cI was told that my father lived in the mine compound but to my surprise I didn\u2019t see him until the next morning,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Advocate Mots\u030coari remembers standing by the mine gate hoping to see his father when he checked in or out but that didn\u2019t happen. Mine workers asked him what he was doing there at the gate and he told them that he was looking for his father.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father had changed his name hence I struggled to find him and his location.
\nHe says he learnt this from a mineworker from the same area of Matelile who took him to spend the night at his quarters, helping him to find his father the next day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat man gave me bread in the morning and told me to wait at the gate as my father would arrive anytime soon.<\/p>\n

\u201d Advocate Mots\u030coari\u2019s father eventually arrived.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of being pleased to see me, he angrily shouted at me and asked what I was doing there, saying I was going to humiliate him.<\/p>\n

\u201d His father ordered him to return to Lesotho.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a horrible day for me. I cannot even recall if he gave me the money my mother had asked for. \u201d<\/p>\n

The father then took him on a long drive to a place where he was staying: a squatter camp full of corrugated iron shacks. \u201cBoom! What a bomb! He had another family there.
\n\u201cAs we entered the house, he introduced me to a lady in that house that this is Makhetha and told me to meet my other family.<\/p>\n

\u201d He was ordered to sleep on a couch. It was a nightmare for him. He could not sleep peacefully trying to connect all the dots and it started to make sense why his father had abandoned them.<\/p>\n

Come morning, he was sent back home where he asked his mother why she had not told him the situation. \u201cMy mother did not answer me, but I believed she wanted me to see for myself, which I did.<\/p>\n

\u201d At the end of the year, his father came home to take all his children with him leaving his wife behind.<\/p>\n

Advocate Mots\u030coari says he chose to stay behind with his mother. \u201cI told him that he could take my other siblings but not me, I told him I would stay with my mother.<\/p>\n

\u201d It was at that moment when he lost his father for good.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father told me that if I stayed I should consider him dead as he would not support me in any form.<\/p>\n

He said he would not give me money as he had disowned me. \u201d Advocate Mots\u030coari says he never thought his father was serious about it. \u201cBut I discovered that he was serious.<\/p>\n

For two years, he didn\u2019t come home and didn\u2019t send us any money. \u201d He proceeded to the new school for senior high school after the principal facilitated government sponsorship for him.<\/p>\n

His results were not good enough to earn him a university place. Advocate Mots\u030coari decided to go to South Africa to plead with his father to help him further his education.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was disinterested.
\n\u201cAlthough he allowed me to live with him, he only gave me M150 when a private school I had approached to supplement required M900.<\/p>\n

\u201d Advocate Mots\u030coari says he told the principal about his problem. The principal paid the tuition fee from his own pocket. Advocate Mots\u030coari gave the principal M100 and started a small business with the remaining M50.<\/p>\n

\u201cI bought cigarettes and some vegetables to sell on the streets so that I would be able to have transport to and from school,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt became a habit as my siblings were also interested and started to assist me.<\/p>\n

\u201d He says he would leave the business in the hands of his siblings when he went to school. His father had not enrolled his siblings at school despite education being free in South Africa.<\/p>\n

After some time, when he was about to complete his high school studies, Advocate Mots\u030coari\u2019s father fell terminally ill. His father\u2019s deathbed words further riled Advocate Mots\u030coari.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis last words to me were that there was R1 000 which he had kept in the house. My siblings and I should take it as transport money back home in Lesotho because he could see that he was going to die,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n

The father, says Advocate Mots\u030coari, told him they should not claim anything from the family in Welkom, the M1 000 was all there was for them. After his father\u2019s burial in Lesotho, Advocate Mots\u030coari went back to South Africa to sit for exams, which he passed.<\/p>\n

He applied to study law at the National University of Lesotho (NUL). His mother went from house to house in the village borrowing money for his transport to the university in Roma as well as his upkeep pending the NMDS paying his stipend.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother was in tears as she helped me.<\/p>\n

\u201d He says that was when their life changed as a family. With his first stipend, he made sure that his family changed for the better.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was now the bread winner of the family, with my student money I took my siblings to school, took care of my mother and everything,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

He credits Professor Kananelo Mosito for taking him in and guiding him as a young lawyer during his internship and after graduation. \u201cHe motivated me to be who I am today.<\/p>\n

He shaped and groomed me until I had my own law firm. \u201d The difficult childhood made Advocate Mots\u030coari vow that he was going to help other people. He started with his family, helping his mother rear cattle and sheep.<\/p>\n

She is now a livestock farmer and is in the national committee of wool producers. \u201cI told my mother that she would never suffer like she used to,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe played her role as a mother. I told her I would not give her money but I would create projects which she would run and make a living for herself. \u201d<\/p>\n

To help other young, struggling lawyers, Advocate Mots\u030coari makes sure that his law firm always has at least five to nine of them. He also has a vibrant tourism business called Boqate Leisure Park in Ha-Leqele, about 10 kilometres south-east of Maseru city.<\/p>\n

Advocate Mots\u030coari tried his hand in politics under the All Basotho Convention (ABC), with the hope that he would be voted to parliament. He failed twice in his Matelile constituency.<\/p>\n

Former Prime Minister Thomas Thabane then appointed him to be the Cabinet Administrator Compliance and Assurance Specialist where he worked until he was appointed chairperson of Police<\/p>\n

Compliance Authority, a position he is still holding. Advocate Mots\u030coari says he is working hard to create jobs through tourism because he has realised that Lesotho has a lot of sites that can attract tourists.<\/p>\n

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