{"id":200526,"date":"2025-06-20T02:08:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T00:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-mp-hlapisi-accuses-dc-colleagues-of-witchcraft\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T02:08:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T00:08:50","slug":"lesotho-mp-hlapisi-accuses-dc-colleagues-of-witchcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-mp-hlapisi-accuses-dc-colleagues-of-witchcraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: MP Hlapisi Accuses DC Colleagues of Witchcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em><em>Vows to join ruling RFP<\/em> <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><em>But party wants him to stay<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Mohloai Mpesi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8216;MALIEPETSANE constituency legislator, Lehlohonolo Hlapisi, has said he intends to ditch the Democratic Congress (DC) for the ruling Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) party, after months of illness and public disputes with fellow DC MPs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Mr Hlapisi, who is still recovering from a stroke that left him bedridden for months, has accused his DC colleagues of &#8220;bewitching&#8221; him and playing a role in his illness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Speaking to the <em>Lesotho&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506190031.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>Vows to join ruling RFP But party wants him to stay Mohloai Mpesi &#8216;MALIEPETSANE constituency legislator, Lehlohonolo Hlapisi, has said he intends to ditch the Democratic Congress (DC) for the ruling Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) party, after months of illness and public disputes with fellow DC MPs. Mr Hlapisi, who is still recovering from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200527,"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":[5070,258,256,13677,51679,4717,1407,257,254,4454],"class_list":["post-200526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-accuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-colleagues","tag-hlapisi","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-witchcraft"],"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\/200526","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=200526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}