{"id":200084,"date":"2025-06-14T01:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-corruption-has-worsened-under-matekane-mokhothu\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T01:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T23:54:58","slug":"lesotho-corruption-has-worsened-under-matekane-mokhothu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-corruption-has-worsened-under-matekane-mokhothu\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: &#8216;Corruption Has Worsened Under Matekane&#8217; &#8211; Mokhothu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Opposition leader Mathibeli Mokhothu has strongly criticized Prime Minister Sam Matekane&#8217;s administration for its inability to tackle the country&#8217;s soaring unemployment rate and persistent corruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The official opposition leader claims that corruption has worsened under Mr Matekane with the cabinet reduced to a &#8220;tender committee&#8221; that awards projects to ministers and their cronies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Speaking at a Democratic Congress (DC) rally in Matala Phase II on Sunday &#8211; in Maseru &#8211; Mr Mokhothu highlighted&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506120636.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>Opposition leader Mathibeli Mokhothu has strongly criticized Prime Minister Sam Matekane&#8217;s administration for its inability to tackle the country&#8217;s soaring unemployment rate and persistent corruption. The official opposition leader claims that corruption has worsened under Mr Matekane with the cabinet reduced to a &#8220;tender committee&#8221; that awards projects to ministers and their cronies. Speaking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200085,"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":[258,256,4723,4717,1407,31272,18107,257,254,35774],"class_list":["post-200084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corruption","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-matekane","tag-mokhothu","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-worsened"],"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\/200084","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=200084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}