{"id":191634,"date":"2025-02-17T06:12:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T04:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-govt-official-suspended-over-lipholo-visa-to-u-s\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T06:12:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T04:12:52","slug":"lesotho-govt-official-suspended-over-lipholo-visa-to-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-govt-official-suspended-over-lipholo-visa-to-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Govt Official Suspended Over Lipholo Visa to U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>&#8211;While in the US, Lipholo &#8220;lobbied&#8221; the UN to help Lesotho reclaim land &#8220;stolen&#8221; by SA<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">As legislator, T\u1e67epo Lipholo, continues to lead his one man crusade to reclaim land he claims was stolen from Basotho by South Africa, an official who enabled him to travel to the United States to push his campaign has been suspended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Japan Mntambo, the Director of Consular Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Relations, issued a &#8220;Note Verbal&#8221; that enabled Dr Lipholo to access a US&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502130039.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>&#8211;While in the US, Lipholo &#8220;lobbied&#8221; the UN to help Lesotho reclaim land &#8220;stolen&#8221; by SA As legislator, T\u1e67epo Lipholo, continues to lead his one man crusade to reclaim land he claims was stolen from Basotho by South Africa, an official who enabled him to travel to the United States to push his campaign has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":191635,"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":[258,256,4357,4717,1407,50650,257,5092,254,4314,2282,1956],"class_list":["post-191634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-govt","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lipholo","tag-news","tag-official","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspended","tag-u-s","tag-visa"],"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\/191634","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=191634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}