{"id":202341,"date":"2025-07-13T14:58:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dpp-suspension-undermines-the-rule-of-law-top-lawyer\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T14:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:58:52","slug":"lesotho-dpp-suspension-undermines-the-rule-of-law-top-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dpp-suspension-undermines-the-rule-of-law-top-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: DPP Suspension Undermines the Rule of Law &#8211; Top Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>&#8230; Law Society challenge deferred to 4 August<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Prime Minister&#8217;s suspension of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Hlalefang Motinyane, marks a dangerous slide towards lawlessness and is a direct assault on the rule of law, the Constitutional Court heard this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">This is according to prominent lawyer, Advocate Karabo Mohau KC, representing the Law Society of Lesotho (LSL) which is challenging the 24 June 2025 suspension of Adv Motinyane by Prime Minister Sam Matekane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The urgency of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507110294.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; Law Society challenge deferred to 4 August The Prime Minister&#8217;s suspension of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Hlalefang Motinyane, marks a dangerous slide towards lawlessness and is a direct assault on the rule of law, the Constitutional Court heard this week. This is according to prominent lawyer, Advocate Karabo Mohau KC, representing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202342,"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":[258,256,8840,7077,8000,4717,1407,257,7858,254,10829,7319,20113],"class_list":["post-202341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dpp","tag-law","tag-lawyer","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-rule","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspension","tag-top","tag-undermines"],"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\/202341","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=202341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}