Lesotho: When a Republic Becomes a Banana…?

Imagine the following ghastly scenario. Ntate Sam (the Prime Minister) and his fellow coalition travellers decide they want to fire our hard working and indefatigable Chief Justice Sakoane Sakoane because he is passing judgments they don’t like. Imagine Ntate Sakoane’s old peer, former Chief Justice and now Deputy Prime Minister Nthomeng Majara, asking him to rule in favour of so and so (just as she – as per own admission – asked DPP Motinyane to not prosecute her coalition’s allies – aka…