{"id":195144,"date":"2025-04-01T22:46:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-letsoepa-makes-shocking-revelations\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:46:20","slug":"lesotho-letsoepa-makes-shocking-revelations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-letsoepa-makes-shocking-revelations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Letsoepa Makes Shocking Revelations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em>&#8230;claims he was fired for refusing to conceal Lipolelo Thabane&#8217;s murder<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><em>&#8230;as he denies murdering PC Khetheng<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">FORMER Commissioner of Police, Molahlehi Letsoepa, who is facing a 2016 murder charge of Police Constable (PC) Mokalekale Khetheng, has claimed that former Prime Minister Tom Thabane expelled him as police commissioner after he refused to disband an investigative team probing the murder of his ex-wife, former First Lady Lipolelo Thabane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Mr Letsoepa alleges that he fled the country in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503310401.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>&#8230;claims he was fired for refusing to conceal Lipolelo Thabane&#8217;s murder &#8230;as he denies murdering PC Khetheng FORMER Commissioner of Police, Molahlehi Letsoepa, who is facing a 2016 murder charge of Police Constable (PC) Mokalekale Khetheng, has claimed that former Prime Minister Tom Thabane expelled him as police commissioner after he refused to disband an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":195145,"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":[258,256,4717,1407,51020,257,19324,10971,254],"class_list":["post-195144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-letsoepa","tag-news","tag-revelations","tag-shocking","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\/195144","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=195144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}