{"id":200269,"date":"2025-06-16T14:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-royal-palace-project-a-case-study-on-how-not-to-run-a-country\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:01:41","slug":"lesotho-royal-palace-project-a-case-study-on-how-not-to-run-a-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-royal-palace-project-a-case-study-on-how-not-to-run-a-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Royal Palace Project &#8211; A Case Study On How Not to Run a Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The latest audit by Auditor-General, &#8216;Mathabo Makenete, into the Royal Palace project is yet another embarrassing illustration of the misgovernance that continues to afflict Lesotho, with seemingly no end in sight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">For more than a decade, fourteen years to be exact, the project is nowhere near completion and continues to bleed the public purse, benefiting corrupt elites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The project is a case study on how public funds are continuously squandered through poor oversight, administrative chaos, and a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506120631.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 latest audit by Auditor-General, &#8216;Mathabo Makenete, into the Royal Palace project is yet another embarrassing illustration of the misgovernance that continues to afflict Lesotho, with seemingly no end in sight. For more than a decade, fourteen years to be exact, the project is nowhere near completion and continues to bleed the public purse, benefiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200270,"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":[258,256,6683,5042,4717,1407,257,6814,6504,6577,7228,254,6056],"class_list":["post-200269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-country","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-palace","tag-project","tag-royal","tag-run","tag-south-africa-today","tag-study"],"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\/200269","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=200269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}