{"id":28726,"date":"2023-05-16T10:43:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T10:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/the-fear-of-whites"},"modified":"2023-05-16T12:30:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T12:30:25","slug":"the-fear-of-whites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/the-fear-of-whites","title":{"rendered":"The fear of whites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Muckraker has no racist bone in her. So she will say what she wants without the fear of being called a racist. Follow the logic slowly to avoid jumping to conclusions.<\/p>\n

The next time the government is fighting a court battle with anyone you should watch the legal representatives carefully. You can be sure that some white fella will be representing the government.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s as if there is always a white messiah waiting to save our government from its legal troubles. They like importing them from across Mohokare. Even if they choose to use a \u2018local\u2019 lawyer you can be sure that they are white.<\/p>\n

The issue of experience doesn\u2019t matter. They just have to be white. This has been the pattern over the years and it\u2019s likely to continue as long as our government suffers from this incessant bout of inferiority complex.<\/p>\n

Everything else can be reserved for Basotho but not the provision of legal services to the government. Here is where it gets excruciatingly painful. The same people who import white lawyers to represent the government will gladly hire local lawyers when they have personal legal problems.<\/p>\n

This is to say they trust local lawyers to solve their problems but don\u2019t believe they are good enough to represent the government. But don\u2019t be confused because there is method to this sickening habit.<\/p>\n

The only reason they don\u2019t hire local lawyers for the government is because there is lots of money to be made. They don\u2019t want the paws of black local lawyers anywhere near the government\u2019s money.<\/p>\n

As far as they are concerned, Basotho lawyers are only good enough to represent thieves, cattle rustlers and those divorcing. Lesotho\u2019s senior lawyers are King\u2019s Counsels in their villages and not to the government.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s legal matters are reserved for imported white lawyers. And let\u2019s not pretend this is not about skin colour. No! If it wasn\u2019t about that, the government would have hired a few black South Africans over the years.<\/p>\n

Muckraker has to mention this because she saw this obsession with white lawyers again recently. The government was represented by a white advocate in its legal fight with the sixteen principal secretaries.<\/p>\n

For some reason, there was no local lawyer to handle a simple labour case between the government and its employees. That lawyer was imported to help the government fight what was clearly an unwinnable case.<\/p>\n

A simple issue that could have been resolved over motoho and cool heads was now involving some imported legal mind behind paid by the bucket. You cannot make this up.<\/p>\n

When it eventually came back to its senses, the government did precisely what it should have done from the onset: negotiate. It took a meeting of a few hours for the Minister of Labour to seal a deal with the principal secretaries.<\/p>\n

And where was the government\u2019s white lawyer? Well, Muckraker is not sure but suspects he was preparing his hefty invoice. The government had wasted Basotho\u2019s money fighting Basotho using some imported lawyer. Yet it says Basotho pele! Nonsense!<\/p>\n

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