{"id":203082,"date":"2025-07-23T15:19:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-pm-issues-warning-on-national-security\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:19:59","slug":"lesotho-pm-issues-warning-on-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-pm-issues-warning-on-national-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: PM Issues Warning On National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">PRIME Minister Sam Matekane has issued a stern warning against actions that threaten national security, citing the recent arrest of Basotho Covenant Movement (BCM) leader, Dr T\u0161epo Lipholo, as an example.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Speaking on national television on Tuesday night, Mr Matekane said police investigations into Dr Lipholo&#8217;s case were at an advanced stage and would be presented before the courts once complete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">&#8220;It has come to our realisation that these matters are not being handled well, as they impact the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507230075.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>PRIME Minister Sam Matekane has issued a stern warning against actions that threaten national security, citing the recent arrest of Basotho Covenant Movement (BCM) leader, Dr T\u0161epo Lipholo, as an example. Speaking on national television on Tuesday night, Mr Matekane said police investigations into Dr Lipholo&#8217;s case were at an advanced stage and would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":203083,"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":[258,256,8008,4717,1407,6687,257,4586,254,7282],"class_list":["post-203082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-issues","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warning"],"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\/203082","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=203082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}