{"id":201403,"date":"2025-07-02T02:35:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-enabling-registration-model-on-the-cards\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:35:16","slug":"lesotho-enabling-registration-model-on-the-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-enabling-registration-model-on-the-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Enabling Registration Model On the Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>&#8230;as govt responds to PM&#8217;s order to remove bottlenecks for youth in business<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Business Development has announced that preparations are underway to implement a new business registration model, following a directive from Prime Minister Sam Matekane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Addressing the National Youth Dialogue on high youth unemployment at Manthabiseng Convention Centre last week, Mr Matekane directed that the registration of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) should be free of charge&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507010637.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 govt responds to PM&#8217;s order to remove bottlenecks for youth in business The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Business Development has announced that preparations are underway to implement a new business registration model, following a directive from Prime Minister Sam Matekane. Addressing the National Youth Dialogue on high youth unemployment at Manthabiseng Convention Centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201404,"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":[258,256,8106,8502,4717,1407,9019,257,7231,254],"class_list":["post-201403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cards","tag-enabling","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-model","tag-news","tag-registration","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\/201403","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=201403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}