A flag of this nature is the most eloquent symbol to convince the BCP-supporting peasants that the new LCD is, in fact, Ntsu's party. Well, perhaps it is both megalomania and political strategy. Clearly the watering-hole regulars, the majority of whom are civil servants and university academics, are not happy with the status quo. The rest of the pub regulars laugh. Indeed it has been said that the shortest route to being a millionaire in Lesotho is to join the civil service.
People talk of a blanket of despondency that covers the whole country.
Our lives are empty. We live only for the day. That is why you see these civil service chaps spending all their lives in the pubs. They talk of the brain drain. Many professionals are leaving for South Africa.