{"id":200459,"date":"2025-06-19T02:06:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-m50m-more-needed-for-ha-belo-electrification\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T02:06:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:06:49","slug":"lesotho-m50m-more-needed-for-ha-belo-electrification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-m50m-more-needed-for-ha-belo-electrification\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: M50m More Needed for Ha Belo Electrification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><em>&#8230;as World Bank demands accountability<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">PRIME Minister, Sam Matekane, has revealed that the protracted electrification of the Ha Belo Industrial Project requires an additional M50 million to be completed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Initially valued at M86.6 million, project costs had since escalated to M136 million. And now an additional M50 million is needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Mr Matekane made these remarks during a press conference held at the Lesotho National Broadcasting Services (LNBS) this week, aimed at informing the public about&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506120136.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>&#8230;as World Bank demands accountability PRIME Minister, Sam Matekane, has revealed that the protracted electrification of the Ha Belo Industrial Project requires an additional M50 million to be completed. Initially valued at M86.6 million, project costs had since escalated to M136 million. And now an additional M50 million is needed. Mr Matekane made these remarks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200460,"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":[258,256,49926,6308,4717,1407,51669,6424,257,254],"class_list":["post-200459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-belo","tag-electrification","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-m50m","tag-needed","tag-news","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\/200459","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=200459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}