{"id":199373,"date":"2025-06-03T01:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T23:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-tau-defends-business-dealings-with-state-owned-lec\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T01:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T23:33:06","slug":"lesotho-tau-defends-business-dealings-with-state-owned-lec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-tau-defends-business-dealings-with-state-owned-lec\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Tau Defends Business Dealings With State-Owned LEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em><em>Refutes &#8216;claims&#8217; his Cell Power owes LEC over M1 million<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>Blames discrepancy on LEC&#8217;s &#8220;flawed systems&#8221;<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">LIMPHO Tau, Minister in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office, has defended his business dealings with the state-owned Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC), despite a potential conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">This comes after it was revealed during a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) grilling of the LEC, that Mr Tau&#8217;s firm, Cell Power, owes the LEC M1.1 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">While Mr Tau acknowledged potential conflict of interest&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506020650.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>Refutes &#8216;claims&#8217; his Cell Power owes LEC over M1 million Blames discrepancy on LEC&#8217;s &#8220;flawed systems&#8221; LIMPHO Tau, Minister in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office, has defended his business dealings with the state-owned Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC), despite a potential conflict of interest. This comes after it was revealed during a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) grilling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199374,"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":[4338,258,256,19064,7820,13476,4717,1407,257,254,16865,31264],"class_list":["post-199373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dealings","tag-defends","tag-lec","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stateowned","tag-tau"],"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\/199373","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=199373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}