Lesotho: Sitting On the Edge of a Cliff

14 November 2019
editorial

When magistrates, who are the custodians of justice in any given country, decide to sue their own government, then things have gone horribly wrong. In fact, it's a scenario that we have never fathomed, let alone heard of anywhere. Yet it has just happened here in Lesotho. It can only happen in Lesotho, the cynics will surely say. We cannot think of anything that should be worse embarrassing for any government.

The coalition of Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has no one but itself to blame for this fateful decision by the country's 50 plus magistrates'. The magistrates opted to drag the government to court last week over perennial disputes about salary increments and improved working conditions.

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