{"id":191587,"date":"2025-02-16T18:11:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T16:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-molelle-stripped-of-bodyguards\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T18:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T16:11:24","slug":"lesotho-molelle-stripped-of-bodyguards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-molelle-stripped-of-bodyguards\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Molelle Stripped of Bodyguards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The embattled Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) Director General, Knorx Molelle, has been stripped of his bodyguards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Advocate Molelle, who had been on leave since 13 January 2025, returned to work this Monday without his security detail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">DCEO spokesperson, &#8216;Matlhokomelo Senoko, confirmed yesterday that Adv Molelle was no longer accompanied by his usual bodyguards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">&#8220;He returned to work this Monday from leave, and we noticed that his usual security guards were not in his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502130544.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 embattled Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) Director General, Knorx Molelle, has been stripped of his bodyguards. Advocate Molelle, who had been on leave since 13 January 2025, returned to work this Monday without his security detail. DCEO spokesperson, &#8216;Matlhokomelo Senoko, confirmed yesterday that Adv Molelle was no longer accompanied by his usual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":191588,"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":[258,256,14768,4717,1407,50648,257,254,1728],"class_list":["post-191587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bodyguards","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-molelle","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stripped"],"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\/191587","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=191587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}