{"id":197393,"date":"2025-05-04T11:57:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T09:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-maqelepo-waits-on-appeal-court\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T09:57:49","slug":"lesotho-maqelepo-waits-on-appeal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-maqelepo-waits-on-appeal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Maqelepo Waits On Appeal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">SUSPENDED Basotho Action Party (BAP) deputy leader, Motlatsi Maqelepo, will have to wait until 2 May 2025 to know his fate within the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">This follows a Court of Appeal hearing of an appeal by BAP leader, Professor Nqosa Mahao, challenging High Court Judge Justice Molefi Makara&#8217;s January 2025 decision to nullify the BAP central executive committee (CEC)&#8217;s suspension of Mr Maqelepo and the BAP parliamentary caucus chairman, Tello Kibane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Messrs Maqelepo and Kibane were suspended in January for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504300313.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>SUSPENDED Basotho Action Party (BAP) deputy leader, Motlatsi Maqelepo, will have to wait until 2 May 2025 to know his fate within the party. This follows a Court of Appeal hearing of an appeal by BAP leader, Professor Nqosa Mahao, challenging High Court Judge Justice Molefi Makara&#8217;s January 2025 decision to nullify the BAP central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197394,"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":[258,256,8992,6185,4717,1407,51278,257,254,24862],"class_list":["post-197393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeal","tag-court","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-maqelepo","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-waits"],"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\/197393","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=197393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}