{"id":200824,"date":"2025-06-24T14:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-starlink-launches-amid-job-losses-in-lesotho\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:19:28","slug":"lesotho-starlink-launches-amid-job-losses-in-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-starlink-launches-amid-job-losses-in-lesotho\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Starlink Launches Amid Job Losses in Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em> Elon Musk&#8217;s satellite internet service comes after months of US funding cuts and tariffs put immense pressure on the country&#8217;s economy <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starlink, Elon Musk&#8217;s satellite internet service, has launched in Lesotho through T-Connect Lesotho.<\/li>\n<li>The launch comes after massive job losses stemming from 50% US tariffs on Lesotho imports and funding cuts that were led by Musk in the Trump administration.<\/li>\n<li>Prime Minister Samuel Matekane&#8217;s government has granted Starlink a ten-year licence despite local&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506240179.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>Elon Musk&#8217;s satellite internet service comes after months of US funding cuts and tariffs put immense pressure on the country&#8217;s economy Starlink, Elon Musk&#8217;s satellite internet service, has launched in Lesotho through T-Connect Lesotho. The launch comes after massive job losses stemming from 50% US tariffs on Lesotho imports and funding cuts that were led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621662:0677e723e1511aac37e569233b7ed8f4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,9679,5957,4717,1407,9741,257,254,42446],"class_list":["post-200824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-job","tag-launches","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-losses","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starlink"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00621662:0677e723e1511aac37e569233b7ed8f4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200824","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=200824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}