{"id":201144,"date":"2025-06-28T14:26:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T12:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-justice-deferred-is-justice-denied\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T14:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T12:26:52","slug":"lesotho-justice-deferred-is-justice-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-justice-deferred-is-justice-denied\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Justice Deferred Is Justice Denied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">IN an unprecedented development that has left scores of litigants grappling with a profound sense of betrayal, Lesotho&#8217;s judiciary has announced a sweeping directive ordering a restart of numerous cases previously heard by retired Justice T\u0161eliso Monapathi and former Justice Keketso Moahloli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">This decision, coming after agonizing years of waiting for justice for many, has ignited outrage among those affected, many of whom cannot help but recall years of emotional and financial strain they have&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506270469.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>IN an unprecedented development that has left scores of litigants grappling with a profound sense of betrayal, Lesotho&#8217;s judiciary has announced a sweeping directive ordering a restart of numerous cases previously heard by retired Justice T\u0161eliso Monapathi and former Justice Keketso Moahloli. This decision, coming after agonizing years of waiting for justice for many, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201145,"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":[258,256,6734,7634,6852,4717,1407,257,254],"class_list":["post-201144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deferred","tag-denied","tag-justice","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","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\/201144","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=201144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}