{"id":179168,"date":"2024-08-24T15:44:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-former-boxing-champion-charged-with-sexual-assault\/"},"modified":"2024-08-24T15:44:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T13:44:09","slug":"lesotho-former-boxing-champion-charged-with-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-former-boxing-champion-charged-with-sexual-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Former Boxing Champion Charged With Sexual Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">FORMER Lesotho Boxing Association (LeBA) president, retired Captain Moses Kopo, appeared before the Maseru Magistrate Court yesterday facing a sexual assault charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Kopo (46), of Ha-Bosofo in Maseru, was brought before Magistrate Nkhethoa Molapo, who read him the charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">According to the charge sheet, Mr Kopo, a businessman and retired soldier, is accused of unlawfully and forcibly undressing &#8216;Malepantiti Rapholo (31) on 13 November 2023, before exposing his private parts to her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Magistrate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408160404.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>FORMER Lesotho Boxing Association (LeBA) president, retired Captain Moses Kopo, appeared before the Maseru Magistrate Court yesterday facing a sexual assault charge. Kopo (46), of Ha-Bosofo in Maseru, was brought before Magistrate Nkhethoa Molapo, who read him the charge. According to the charge sheet, Mr Kopo, a businessman and retired soldier, is accused of unlawfully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":179169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00491004:e4c8820f9f72aec617324871acae95c4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,11975,7385,6733,7081,4717,1407,257,9796,254],"class_list":["post-179168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assault","tag-boxing","tag-champion","tag-charged","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-sexual","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00491004:e4c8820f9f72aec617324871acae95c4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179168","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=179168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}