A great jurist and a distinguished Chief Justice

I convey my heartfelt condolences to the Nganunu family and besiege the almighty to guard and protect them.  They should accept that Chief Justice Nganunu ran his race and that he completed his task in this world.  His time had come.

Since his retirement from the bench, we tended to meet a lot and had time to catch up on a number of issues of mutual concern.  Both of us were part of the regional team that was constituted by the International Commission of Jurists to go on a fact finding mission concerning some turbulence in Lesotho’s judiciary a year or so ago.  Although I eventually could not make it to Lesotho, we used to discuss at length the role of an independent judiciary in a democratic dispensation of which he was a strong proponent.