{"id":194812,"date":"2025-03-28T22:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-mps-call-for-drastic-curbing-of-international-trips\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:37:41","slug":"lesotho-mps-call-for-drastic-curbing-of-international-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-mps-call-for-drastic-curbing-of-international-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: MPs Call for Drastic Curbing of International Trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">FUNDS saved from international travel reductions should be redirected towards combating youth unemployment through job creation, internships, vocational training, mentorship programs, and entrepreneurship support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">This was proposed by Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Matala Constituency, T\u0161eliso Moroke, during a heated debate on the 2025\/2026 national budget in the National Assembly on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Several MPs have called for the government to curb its huge budget for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503260397.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>FUNDS saved from international travel reductions should be redirected towards combating youth unemployment through job creation, internships, vocational training, mentorship programs, and entrepreneurship support. This was proposed by Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Matala Constituency, T\u0161eliso Moroke, during a heated debate on the 2025\/2026 national budget in the National Assembly on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00411487:8ea10206b0dc9277db0e98fd89ef086d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6880,13594,22092,4337,4717,1407,7260,257,254,11638],"class_list":["post-194812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-call","tag-curbing","tag-drastic","tag-international","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trips"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00411487:8ea10206b0dc9277db0e98fd89ef086d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194812","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=194812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}