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Businessman\u00a0Bothata Mahlala has confirmed he is in the process of forming a new political party after initially denying that he would do so.<\/p>\n
Mr Mahlala, who had in previous interviews vowed to remain a loyal member of the Democratic Congress (DC), said he had decided to quit and form his party because the DC was no longer a viable vehicle through which to achieve his vision for the country.<\/p>\n
The businessman and philanthropist had been the DC’s public relations officer. He confirmed to the Lesotho…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Businessman\u00a0Bothata Mahlala has confirmed he is in the process of forming a new political party after initially denying that he would do so. Mr Mahlala, who had in previous interviews vowed to remain a loyal member of the Democratic Congress (DC), said he had decided to quit and form his party because the DC was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194145,"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":[258,256,11986,4717,1407,29908,257,7024,254],"class_list":["post-194144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-forms","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-mahlala","tag-news","tag-party","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/194144","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=194144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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