Lesotho: Interviews Expose Incompetence of Magistrates

MASERU Resident Magistrate, Motlatsi Kolisang, and his Quthing counterpart, Palesa Rantara, came under intense scrutiny during interviews for High Court judges in Maseru this week.

The two magistrates, alongside Itumeleng ‘Mamokhali Shale, Head of the Department of Procedural and Adjectival Law at the National University of Lesotho (NUL), were shortlisted from the 21 applicants received by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) for three vacant High Court judge positions.

The interview panel,…