No More 'Kgabo!' Handshakes With Commoners For Kgafela

Monday, March 15, 2010

For Kgosi Kgafela II of Bakgatla, a handshake greeting has perhaps been one of the main characteristics of his job as a lawyer for over 10 years. A client is welcomed in his office for legal consultation with a handshake.

They part with a handshake. He has encountered hundreds of clients from all sorts of backgrounds especially as a human rights lawyer meeting with all sorts of disadvantaged groups and individuals.

Since he assumed the reigns of Kgosi Kgolo of Bakgatla his handshake with the common man in the street or at his kgotla has never ceased. However he has now been instructed by his royal uncles to stop this practice with members of the public because in Bakgatla culture it is anathema for a king to shake hands with commoners.

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No More 'Kgabo!' Handshakes With Commoners For Kgafela

For Kgosi Kgafela II of Bakgatla, a handshake greeting has perhaps been one of the main characteristics of his job as a lawyer for over 10 years. A client is welcomed in his office for legal consultation with a handshake.