{"id":202539,"date":"2025-07-16T03:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dams-authority-fights-back-in-legally-baseless-court-case\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T03:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T01:04:06","slug":"lesotho-dams-authority-fights-back-in-legally-baseless-court-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dams-authority-fights-back-in-legally-baseless-court-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Dams Authority Fights Back in &#8216;Legally Baseless&#8217; Court Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em> Court applicants say the LHDA has failed to compensate them adequately after they were displaced <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) filed papers on Thursday arguing that a constitutional case brought on behalf of communities displaced by the Katse, Mohale, and Polihali dams, should be summarily dismissed.<\/li>\n<li>In his affidavit, LHDA CEO Tente Tente said the lead applicants had no legal standing in the matter and had produced no evidence for their claims.<\/li>\n<li>The authority acknowledges&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507140664.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>Court applicants say the LHDA has failed to compensate them adequately after they were displaced The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) filed papers on Thursday arguing that a constitutional case brought on behalf of communities displaced by the Katse, Mohale, and Polihali dams, should be summarily dismissed. In his affidavit, LHDA CEO Tente Tente said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202540,"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":[258,256,9367,11314,6683,6185,7037,8958,31487,4717,1407,257,254],"class_list":["post-202539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authority","tag-baseless","tag-case","tag-court","tag-dams","tag-fights","tag-legally","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\/202539","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=202539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}