{"id":198153,"date":"2025-05-15T12:23:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T10:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-the-thorny-truth-of-lesothos-rosehip-industry\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T10:23:39","slug":"lesotho-the-thorny-truth-of-lesothos-rosehip-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-the-thorny-truth-of-lesothos-rosehip-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: The Thorny Truth of Lesotho&#8217;s Rosehip Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em> Villagers survive on meagre earnings while big companies make millions <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lesotho&#8217;s wild-harvested rosehips are an important industry for the small country&#8217;s economy, providing thousands of people in rural villages with a source of income.<\/li>\n<li>But pay is lower than minimum wage, harvesters are not protected by labour law, and they lack proper protective gear to guard against the <em>rosa canina<\/em> plant&#8217;s thorny branches.<\/li>\n<li>Despite this, large international companies boast of the social impact of their rosehip&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505150106.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>Villagers survive on meagre earnings while big companies make millions Lesotho&#8217;s wild-harvested rosehips are an important industry for the small country&#8217;s economy, providing thousands of people in rural villages with a source of income. But pay is lower than minimum wage, harvesters are not protected by labour law, and they lack proper protective gear to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198154,"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":[258,256,8317,4717,1407,9990,257,51354,254,12612,7814],"class_list":["post-198153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-industry","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothos","tag-news","tag-rosehip","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thorny","tag-truth"],"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\/198153","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=198153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}