{"id":174754,"date":"2024-06-18T13:08:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-matekane-speaks-on-famo-violence\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T11:08:05","slug":"lesotho-matekane-speaks-on-famo-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-matekane-speaks-on-famo-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Matekane Speaks On Famo Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em><em>after his gvt bans the Famo groups<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>brands them as terrorists<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>as the groups vow to fight ban<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">THE infamous <em>Famo<\/em> gangs &#8211; accused of being the kingpins behind ubiquitous violent murders &#8211; have vowed to challenge recently gazetted regulations banning them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">This as Prime Minister, Sam Matekane, declared war on the <em>Famo<\/em> groups after branding them as &#8220;terrorists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Mr Matekane finally broke his silence on the <em>Famo<\/em> groups, accused of perpetrating heinous crimes across the country, while addressing his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406180368.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after his gvt bans the Famo groups brands them as terrorists as the groups vow to fight ban THE infamous Famo gangs &#8211; accused of being the kingpins behind ubiquitous violent murders &#8211; have vowed to challenge recently gazetted regulations banning them. This as Prime Minister, Sam Matekane, declared war on the Famo groups after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,14631,4717,1407,31272,257,254,5938,2148],"class_list":["post-174754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-famo","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-matekane","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaks","tag-violence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}