Lesotho: Bye, Bye to a Lying, Wretched Petty Thief and Scoundrel Masquerading As a Lawyer

As Scrutator has always argued, Lesotho has too many lawyers–far too many–squeezed into a tiny market where the available clients can barely fill a kombi, let alone sustain an entire profession. The legal profession is now akin to a desperate jungle as the Kingdom continues to drown in lawyers– a bloated herd of wig-wearing hustlers elbowing each other for the same handful of clients.

Even former judge, Tšeliso Monapathi, once mocked this chaos when he lamented that some of these “learned…