{"id":196754,"date":"2025-04-25T11:35:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T09:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-soldier-challenges-law-outlawing-famo-gangs\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T11:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T09:35:54","slug":"lesotho-soldier-challenges-law-outlawing-famo-gangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-soldier-challenges-law-outlawing-famo-gangs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Soldier Challenges Law Outlawing Famo Gangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em>T<\/em>HE Internal Security (Declaration of Unlawful Organisation), Notice No. 40 of 2024, which criminalises <em>famo<\/em> groups, is being challenged in court by a soldier married to a member of the outlawed <em>Terene<\/em> group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The female soldier, Lineo Kibinye, wants the law scrapped on the grounds that it is unconstitutional, arguing it violates Section 16 of the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">This is the first time the Internal Security (Declaration of Unlawful Organisation), Notice No. 40&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504240096.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>THE Internal Security (Declaration of Unlawful Organisation), Notice No. 40 of 2024, which criminalises famo groups, is being challenged in court by a soldier married to a member of the outlawed Terene group. The female soldier, Lineo Kibinye, wants the law scrapped on the grounds that it is unconstitutional, arguing it violates Section 16 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":196755,"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":[258,256,6977,14631,20815,7077,4717,1407,257,51208,7761,254],"class_list":["post-196754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenges","tag-famo","tag-gangs","tag-law","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-outlawing","tag-soldier","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\/196754","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=196754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}