{"id":216342,"date":"2025-12-11T10:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-bye-bye-to-a-lying-wretched-petty-thief-and-scoundrel-masquerading-as-a-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:15:01","slug":"lesotho-bye-bye-to-a-lying-wretched-petty-thief-and-scoundrel-masquerading-as-a-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-bye-bye-to-a-lying-wretched-petty-thief-and-scoundrel-masquerading-as-a-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Bye, Bye to a Lying, Wretched Petty Thief and Scoundrel Masquerading As a Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A<\/em>s 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.<\/p>\n

Even former judge, T\u0161eliso Monapathi, once mocked this chaos when he lamented that some of these “learned…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,53101,8000,4717,1407,11399,46022,257,13534,53103,254,30845,53102],"class_list":["post-216342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bye","tag-lawyer","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lying","tag-masquerading","tag-news","tag-petty","tag-scoundrel","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thief","tag-wretched"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}