{"id":193679,"date":"2025-03-16T07:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T05:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-teacher-who-stabbed-student-to-represent-himself-in-court\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T07:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T05:16:17","slug":"lesotho-teacher-who-stabbed-student-to-represent-himself-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-teacher-who-stabbed-student-to-represent-himself-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Teacher Who &#8216;Stabbed&#8217; Student to Represent Himself in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">A PHUTHIATSANA High School teacher accused of stabbing his student in December last year has chosen to represent himself in his trial before the Maseru Magistrates Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The 32-year-old Motlatsi Molise allegedly stabbed his student, T\u0161episo Mabathoana, multiple times with &#8220;an instrument&#8221; and bit her lip at Borokhoaneng, Maseru, on 3 December 2024. Ms Mabathoana was left in a critical condition and hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Molise was arrested by Thamae Police and appeared before Magistrate Lerato Ntelane on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503060067.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>A PHUTHIATSANA High School teacher accused of stabbing his student in December last year has chosen to represent himself in his trial before the Maseru Magistrates Court. The 32-year-old Motlatsi Molise allegedly stabbed his student, T\u0161episo Mabathoana, multiple times with &#8220;an instrument&#8221; and bit her lip at Borokhoaneng, Maseru, on 3 December 2024. Ms Mabathoana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6185,4717,1407,257,7704,254,1891,11431,9245],"class_list":["post-193679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-represent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stabbed","tag-student","tag-teacher"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193679","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=193679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}