{"id":200212,"date":"2025-06-16T02:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-rights-group-blasts-ldfs-exclusionary-recruitment-process\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T02:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T00:00:09","slug":"lesotho-rights-group-blasts-ldfs-exclusionary-recruitment-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-rights-group-blasts-ldfs-exclusionary-recruitment-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Rights Group Blasts LDF&#8217;s &#8216;Exclusionary&#8217; Recruitment Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em><em>But LDF refuses to entertain Section 2 concerns<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>Says everyone is entitled to freedom of expression<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Moroke Sekoboto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Advocates for the Supremacy of the Constitution, a human rights advocacy group also known as SECTION 2, has criticized last month&#8217;s LDF recruitment process for soldiers, describing it as &#8220;exclusionary, irrational, and especially unfair to young people living in rural areas and those in the diaspora&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The group argues that the process does not meet the standards of rationality&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506120632.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>But LDF refuses to entertain Section 2 concerns Says everyone is entitled to freedom of expression Moroke Sekoboto Advocates for the Supremacy of the Constitution, a human rights advocacy group also known as SECTION 2, has criticized last month&#8217;s LDF recruitment process for soldiers, describing it as &#8220;exclusionary, irrational, and especially unfair to young people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200213,"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":[258,256,9606,51634,5192,51633,4717,1407,257,5755,8960,5100,254],"class_list":["post-200212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blasts","tag-exclusionary","tag-group","tag-ldfs","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-process","tag-recruitment","tag-rights","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\/200212","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=200212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}