{"id":201632,"date":"2025-07-04T14:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-lipholo-disrespected-royal-family-police\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:39:54","slug":"lesotho-lipholo-disrespected-royal-family-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-lipholo-disrespected-royal-family-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Lipholo Disrespected Royal Family &#8211; Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">THE Basotho Covenant Movement (BCM) leader, Dr T\u0161epo Lipholo, is facing charges of incitement, provocation of peace, and contempt for allegedly disrespecting the Royal Family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">According to Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) Deputy Spokesperson, Inspector &#8216;Mareabetsoe Mofoka, Dr Lipholo is accused of making inflammatory and disrespectful remarks about the Royal Family on various public platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Dr Lipholo, who has reportedly been in self-imposed exile since the beginning of the year, was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507040047.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>THE Basotho Covenant Movement (BCM) leader, Dr T\u0161epo Lipholo, is facing charges of incitement, provocation of peace, and contempt for allegedly disrespecting the Royal Family. According to Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) Deputy Spokesperson, Inspector &#8216;Mareabetsoe Mofoka, Dr Lipholo is accused of making inflammatory and disrespectful remarks about the Royal Family on various public platforms. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201633,"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":[258,256,51800,5203,4717,1407,50650,257,662,6577,254],"class_list":["post-201632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-disrespected","tag-family","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lipholo","tag-news","tag-police","tag-royal","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\/201632","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=201632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}