{"id":178949,"date":"2024-08-21T15:35:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-basotho-take-pride-in-their-national-identity-but-say-country-is-heading-in-the-wrong-direction\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:35:47","slug":"lesotho-basotho-take-pride-in-their-national-identity-but-say-country-is-heading-in-the-wrong-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-basotho-take-pride-in-their-national-identity-but-say-country-is-heading-in-the-wrong-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Basotho Take Pride in Their National Identity but Say Country Is Heading in the Wrong Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">As Lesotho celebrates its bicentennial, views are mixed on how well government is advancing the country&#8217;s founding principles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Key findings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Almost all Basotho (91%) say they are proud of their nationality.<\/li>\n<li>Seven in 10 (70%) say they identify equally strongly with their national and ethnic identities.<\/li>\n<li>The share of citizens who say they have a political home has declined over the past decade, from 68% in 2014 to 53%.<\/li>\n<li>Large majorities express tolerant attitudes toward people from different religious&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408210142.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>As Lesotho celebrates its bicentennial, views are mixed on how well government is advancing the country&#8217;s founding principles. Key findings Almost all Basotho (91%) say they are proud of their nationality. Seven in 10 (70%) say they identify equally strongly with their national and ethnic identities. The share of citizens who say they have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178950,"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":[258,256,18241,5042,15052,12023,10028,4717,1407,6687,257,15797,254,9678],"class_list":["post-178949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-basotho","tag-country","tag-direction","tag-heading","tag-identity","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-pride","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wrong"],"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\/178949","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=178949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}