{"id":198249,"date":"2025-05-17T00:26:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T22:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-da-demands-urgent-ag-probe-after-pollution-halts-lesotho-water-project\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T00:26:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T22:26:47","slug":"lesotho-da-demands-urgent-ag-probe-after-pollution-halts-lesotho-water-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-da-demands-urgent-ag-probe-after-pollution-halts-lesotho-water-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: DA Demands Urgent Ag Probe After Pollution Halts Lesotho Water Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">Pollution halts LHWP2 construction due to contractor-caused contamination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Project costs have ballooned from R8 billion to R53 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The DA demands AGSA oversight, urging Minister Majodina to enable accountability for the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Democratic Alliance (DA) again calls for Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina to urgently task the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) to investigate critical financial and environmental concerns surrounding the Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phase 2&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505160393.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>Pollution halts LHWP2 construction due to contractor-caused contamination. Project costs have ballooned from R8 billion to R53 billion. The DA demands AGSA oversight, urging Minister Majodina to enable accountability for the project. The Democratic Alliance (DA) again calls for Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina to urgently task the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198250,"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":[258,256,6979,16494,4717,1407,257,10362,5805,6504,254,11318,6722],"class_list":["post-198249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-demands","tag-halts","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-pollution","tag-probe","tag-project","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urgent","tag-water"],"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\/198249","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=198249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}