nurtured. Another was ‘A knobkerrie is far more valuable when used to thrash the corn than to kill men on the battlefield’.
His advice to chiefs and headmen was: ‘When you sit in judgement, let your decisions be just. The law knows no one as a poor man.’ It was Mohlomi who started the custom, still alive to this day, that one should greet a stranger with an open, raised hand and the exclamation ‘Khotso!’ (peace).[6]
But possibly the most famous saying of all, now proclaimed by some Basotho historians as a call to democracy, was: ‘A chief is a chief by the grace of his people.’[7]
4. Ntsu Mokhehle: Moshoeshoe I Profile: Se-Moshoeshoe, 2nd edition (Maseru: Mmoho Publications, 1990)
5. Thomas Arbousset: Missionary Excursion into the Blue Mountains (Lesotho: Morija Museum and Archives), p 63
6. Mokhehle, p 32
7. Lesotho historian and author Professor LBBJ Machobane in an interview with the author
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