{"id":188227,"date":"2025-01-09T02:28:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-water-shortages-plague-mafeteng\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T02:28:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T00:28:48","slug":"lesotho-water-shortages-plague-mafeteng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-water-shortages-plague-mafeteng\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Water Shortages Plague Mafeteng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">WHILE the rest of the kingdom rejoiced during this festive season, it was not the case in Mafeteng district which faced a critical shortage of water throughout the festive period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">A local law firm is now threatening legal action against the Water and Sewage Company (WASCO) for &#8220;denying&#8221; local Mafeteng communities access to this vital resource.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">A rights group has also jumped onto the bandwagon in solidarity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Advocate Fusi Sehapi, a renowned human rights lawyer representing Goldman Mustard Inc., and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501080321.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>WHILE the rest of the kingdom rejoiced during this festive season, it was not the case in Mafeteng district which faced a critical shortage of water throughout the festive period. A local law firm is now threatening legal action against the Water and Sewage Company (WASCO) for &#8220;denying&#8221; local Mafeteng communities access to this vital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188228,"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":[258,256,4717,1407,46603,257,15850,18813,254,6722],"class_list":["post-188227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-mafeteng","tag-news","tag-plague","tag-shortages","tag-south-africa-today","tag-water"],"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\/188227","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=188227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}