{"id":199892,"date":"2025-06-10T13:48:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-magistrate-murenzis-disciplinary-hearing-stalls\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:48:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:48:01","slug":"lesotho-magistrate-murenzis-disciplinary-hearing-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-magistrate-murenzis-disciplinary-hearing-stalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Magistrate Murenzi&#8217;s Disciplinary Hearing Stalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><em>Moorosi Tsiane \/ Hopolang Mokhopi<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">SUSPENDED Senior Resident Magistrate Peter Murenzi&#8217;s disciplinary hearing has been postponed to next week after he was denied legal representation during the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The hearing was scheduled to resume on Tuesday at the High Court premises, but according to a source close to the matter, Magistrate Murenzi requested access to witness statements and asked to be represented by his lawyers but his requests were denied by the disciplinary panel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;The judge told&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505300457.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>Moorosi Tsiane \/ Hopolang Mokhopi SUSPENDED Senior Resident Magistrate Peter Murenzi&#8217;s disciplinary hearing has been postponed to next week after he was denied legal representation during the proceedings. The hearing was scheduled to resume on Tuesday at the High Court premises, but according to a source close to the matter, Magistrate Murenzi requested access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199893,"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":[258,256,10546,6636,4717,1407,17492,51584,257,254,11885],"class_list":["post-199892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-disciplinary","tag-hearing","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-magistrate","tag-murenzis","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stalls"],"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\/199892","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=199892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}