{"id":199162,"date":"2025-05-31T01:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-lhda-fights-back-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T01:26:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T23:26:00","slug":"lesotho-lhda-fights-back-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-lhda-fights-back-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: LHDA Fights Back &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em>&#8230;wants Chairperson Phakisi&#8217;s application thrown out for lack of court&#8217;s jurisdiction<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Moorosi Tsiane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">THE Lesotho Highlands Water Commission (LHWC) is challenging the High Court&#8217;s authority to hear a case filed by chairperson of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) board, Lehlomela Stephen Phakisi, who is fighting to keep his position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The LHWC and LHDA lawyer, Attorney Qhalehang Letsika, argued before Chief Justice Sakoane Sakoane yesterday that the High Court lacks jurisdiction&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505300474.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>&#8230;wants Chairperson Phakisi&#8217;s application thrown out for lack of court&#8217;s jurisdiction Moorosi Tsiane THE Lesotho Highlands Water Commission (LHWC) is challenging the High Court&#8217;s authority to hear a case filed by chairperson of the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) board, Lehlomela Stephen Phakisi, who is fighting to keep his position. The LHWC and LHDA lawyer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199163,"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":[258,256,42655,8958,4717,1407,28153,257,254],"class_list":["post-199162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-fights","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lhda","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\/199162","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=199162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}