This approach, which promised slow but inclusive growth, slowed the latter and delivered nothing on inclusivity
Tono — an accepted notion among Basotho men that there should be a pecking order in governance. In economic governance, such a notion is etched in policy. A colonial magistrate in what was referred to as Basutholand was frustrated by assault cases that streamed into court after work parties that followed wheat mowing in summer, sorghum thrashing in winter or festivities where tjontjobina was imbibed, often in extravagant measure.
The problem, of course, was that the white magistrate did not know that tono is the remnant at the bottom of the clay pot containing sorghum brew, so it will always be drunk last. Tono’s significance is that it defines the pecking order by age. Where age may not be known, as would be the case in societies without writing, and where it is determined by succession rather than birth dates, tono renders this order complex and challenging.
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