{"id":178697,"date":"2024-08-17T03:23:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T01:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-rsl-destroys-illicit-tobacco-products\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T03:23:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T01:23:47","slug":"lesotho-rsl-destroys-illicit-tobacco-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-rsl-destroys-illicit-tobacco-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: RSL Destroys Illicit Tobacco Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">THE Revenue Services Lesotho (RSL) has destroyed 557 cartons and 76 boxes of illegal cigarettes with an estimated street value of M126 000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The products were trashed at T\u0161oeneng Landfill in Rothe, Maseru, this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Some of the seized products were prohibited from being on the market while others were undeclared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">According to RSL Manager of Inland Port Services, Lebohang Nokana, the cigarettes were seized at various ports of entry across the country between December 2023 and June 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408160697.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>THE Revenue Services Lesotho (RSL) has destroyed 557 cartons and 76 boxes of illegal cigarettes with an estimated street value of M126 000. The products were trashed at T\u0161oeneng Landfill in Rothe, Maseru, this week. Some of the seized products were prohibited from being on the market while others were undeclared. According to RSL Manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178698,"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":[258,256,11462,9926,4717,1407,257,7418,49295,254,4456],"class_list":["post-178697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-destroys","tag-illicit","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-products","tag-rsl","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tobacco"],"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\/178697","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=178697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}