{"id":200482,"date":"2025-06-19T14:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T12:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-khasipe-vows-to-uproot-lec-rot\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T14:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T12:08:06","slug":"lesotho-khasipe-vows-to-uproot-lec-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-khasipe-vows-to-uproot-lec-rot\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Khasipe Vows to Uproot LEC Rot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">THE Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) chairperson, Thabo Khasipe, has vowed to root out corruption and fraud that have crippled the state-owned power utility for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">In an exclusive interview with the <em>Lesotho Times<\/em> yesterday, Mr Khasipe said the turnaround strategy would be aggressive and deliver visible progress within a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">He was speaking between sessions of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which has been grilling the LEC board and executive management since earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">He said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506190200.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 Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) chairperson, Thabo Khasipe, has vowed to root out corruption and fraud that have crippled the state-owned power utility for years. In an exclusive interview with the Lesotho Times yesterday, Mr Khasipe said the turnaround strategy would be aggressive and deliver visible progress within a year. He was speaking between sessions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200483,"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":[258,256,28057,13476,4717,1407,257,12691,254,18886,9639],"class_list":["post-200482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-khasipe","tag-lec","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-rot","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uproot","tag-vows"],"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\/200482","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=200482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}