{"id":201430,"date":"2025-07-02T14:36:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-multi-billion-maloti-sekhametsi-in-turmoil\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T14:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:36:05","slug":"lesotho-multi-billion-maloti-sekhametsi-in-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-multi-billion-maloti-sekhametsi-in-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Multi-Billion Maloti Sekhametsi in Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>&#8230;as Minister Moteane is embroiled in another conflict-of-interest scandal<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>&#8230;while PM Matekane is also fingered in &#8220;unauthorised&#8221; investments<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em>&#8230; Dr Ramatlapeng accused of fomenting chaos to block audit report<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Moorosi Tsiane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">A bitter internal battle has erupted among shareholders of the multi-billion Maloti Sekhametsi Investment Consortium (SMIC) over the controversial disbursement of more than M25 million to companies linked to Prime Minister Sam Matekane and his ally, Revolution for Prosperity&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507010047.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 Minister Moteane is embroiled in another conflict-of-interest scandal &#8230;while PM Matekane is also fingered in &#8220;unauthorised&#8221; investments &#8230; Dr Ramatlapeng accused of fomenting chaos to block audit report Moorosi Tsiane A bitter internal battle has erupted among shareholders of the multi-billion Maloti Sekhametsi Investment Consortium (SMIC) over the controversial disbursement of more than M25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201431,"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":[258,256,4717,1407,51777,27400,257,51778,254,8513],"class_list":["post-201430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-maloti","tag-multibillion","tag-news","tag-sekhametsi","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turmoil"],"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\/201430","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=201430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}