{"id":31314,"date":"2023-07-13T10:09:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T10:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/masters-of-lies"},"modified":"2023-07-13T10:25:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T10:25:25","slug":"masters-of-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/masters-of-lies","title":{"rendered":"Masters of lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Here is an indisputable historical fact. Basotho were the first people in human history to mine diamonds. That is according to a 1904 research by Professor Zet Makhado who was the first black vice-chancellor of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST).<\/p>\n

The NUST, which was based in Morija, was the first university in Southern Africa. It was however bombed by the Boers. If that sounds to you like new knowledge to be swallowed like makoenya you need urgent prayers.<\/p>\n

Fire! You are frightfully ignorant and tantalizingly gullible. Muckraker cooked up that lie for no reason and without provocation. Just a wretched lie told because it can be told.<\/p>\n

But if you think that is outrageous you have been sleep-walking over the past few years in Lesotho. Either that or you are part of the lying gang. Those who have been awake and are yet to dive into the cesspool that is our politics will testify, even under oath, that Lesotho is a land of lies.<\/p>\n

Because our politicians are pathological liars, it is pointless to list the lies they have emitted in recent months. For brevity, we only have to stick to their latest spell of deceptions.<\/p>\n

It is about the government\u2019s gazette listing the benefits for Uncle Sam and MPs. The opposition has been screaming about those benefits as if they are something new. They are on radio bellowing about the government wasting money by pampering Uncle Sam with support staff and the MPs with allowances.<\/p>\n

Some nai\u0308ve but excitable journalists have joined the frenzy, echoing the opposition\u2019s shrills and even spicing things up with by-products of their insatiable desire for the sensational.<\/p>\n

First, there is nothing particularly new about the gazetted support staff positions for Uncle Sam. The brouhaha over the position of the gentleman-in-waiting, who is just a lowly-ranking aide, is overdone.<\/p>\n

Those wondering what a gentleman-in-waiting does should tell us why they don\u2019t kick up a fuss about the lady-in-waiting position that has always been in the Office of the First Lady.<\/p>\n

Just because you are seeing something for the first time doesn\u2019t mean it has just started existing. Don\u2019t confuse your ignorance for discovery. Many of the positions are for both his office and the State House anyway.<\/p>\n

They have always existed. Their listing in the gazette doesn\u2019t mean they are a recent creation. That you didn\u2019t know about them doesn\u2019t mean they didn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

Whether they are filled or not is not the point. And it\u2019s not about Uncle Sam staffing and stuffing the positions with cronies. Politicians\u2019 aides have always been certified cronies anyway.<\/p>\n

A prime minister is free to choose who should drive or cook for him or carry his briefcase. None of those now shedding crimson tears hired their aides on merit when they were in power.<\/p>\n

It was about proximity and party affiliations. The noise about MPs\u2019 fuel allowances is breathtakingly hypocritical. The same people who awarded themselves those unjustified allowances are now saying the new government should remove them.<\/p>\n

This is despite that they implemented them amid protests from the people and they had two years to remove them. The irony will be hilarious were it not so tragic.<\/p>\n

You fight to earn an allowance and then fight again to get it removed. None of those MPs fighting to get the allowances removed have ever openly rejected them when they arrived in their bank accounts.<\/p>\n

None has ever announced that they are donating it to the poor because they are ill-gotten and unjustified. People who have earned sitting allowances for years as MPs are now saying they should be removed because they amount to self-enrichment.<\/p>\n

Phew! At what point did they regain their scruples? One weekly newspaper that never disappoints when it comes to manufacturing outrage even described Uncle Sam\u2019s perks as \u201chair raising\u201d.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a cliche\u0301 to describe something astonishing or extremely alarming. It is not clear how perks that have existed for decades would suddenly cause hair to rise.<\/p>\n

Suffice it to say some levels of ignorance are hair-raising. Muckraker is not justifying the allowances or positions in Uncle Sam\u2019s office. The point is that those opposed to them can make their point without lying or being hypocritical because that amounts to treating the public as unthinking zombies.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.thepost.co.ls\/muckraker\/masters-of-lies\/<\/b><\/p>\n

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