{"id":196549,"date":"2025-04-22T11:30:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T09:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-fight-over-fish-in-lesothos-katse-dam\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T11:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T09:30:47","slug":"lesotho-fight-over-fish-in-lesothos-katse-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-fight-over-fish-in-lesothos-katse-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Fight Over Fish in Lesotho&#8217;s Katse Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em> Local fishers say they are arrested and beaten up but authorities deny this <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fishers at Katse Dam in Lesotho&#8217;s Highlands claim they have been beaten by officials policing the area on behalf of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA).<\/li>\n<li>The dam is part of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, through which Lesotho exports water to South Africa.<\/li>\n<li>It is also the site of a trout farm run by SanLei Premium Trout.<\/li>\n<li>The LHDA denies any abuse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Pheello Seafo says he was beaten up by police last&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504220065.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>Local fishers say they are arrested and beaten up but authorities deny this Fishers at Katse Dam in Lesotho&#8217;s Highlands claim they have been beaten by officials policing the area on behalf of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA). The dam is part of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, through which Lesotho exports water to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":196550,"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":[258,256,7146,4345,8555,15179,4717,1407,9990,257,254],"class_list":["post-196549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dam","tag-fight","tag-fish","tag-katse","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothos","tag-news","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\/196549","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=196549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}