{"id":199210,"date":"2025-05-31T13:27:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T11:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-m2-3b-set-aside-for-roads-construction\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T13:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T11:27:23","slug":"lesotho-m2-3b-set-aside-for-roads-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-m2-3b-set-aside-for-roads-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: M2.3b Set Aside for Roads Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Roads Directorate will spend a whooping M2.3 billion to construct and rehabilitate Lesotho&#8217;s roads infrastructure in this 2025\/26 financial year to improve connectivity, boost safety, and drive economic development across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">This was said at a press briefing held at the Roads Directorate headquarters in Maseru this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">It follows three months of intensive planning aimed at improving the country&#8217;s road network through new construction, upgrades, rehabilitation, and maintenance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505300461.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 Roads Directorate will spend a whooping M2.3 billion to construct and rehabilitate Lesotho&#8217;s roads infrastructure in this 2025\/26 financial year to improve connectivity, boost safety, and drive economic development across the country. This was said at a press briefing held at the Roads Directorate headquarters in Maseru this week. It follows three months of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199211,"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":[258,256,7601,4717,1407,51488,257,9013,7106,254],"class_list":["post-199210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-construction","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-m2-3b","tag-news","tag-roads","tag-set","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\/199210","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=199210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}