{"id":203495,"date":"2025-07-29T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-hundreds-of-lesotho-diamond-mining-jobs-to-be-axed-following-u-s-tariff-threats\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T03:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T01:31:00","slug":"lesotho-hundreds-of-lesotho-diamond-mining-jobs-to-be-axed-following-u-s-tariff-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-hundreds-of-lesotho-diamond-mining-jobs-to-be-axed-following-u-s-tariff-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Hundreds of Lesotho Diamond Mining Jobs to Be Axed Following U.S. Tariff Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em> Between 250 and 300 permanent and contracted workers at Let\u0161eng Diamonds are expected to lose their jobs <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Between 250 and 300 permanent and contracted workers at Lesotho&#8217;s largest diamond mine, Let\u0161eng Diamonds, are expected to lose their jobs.<\/li>\n<li>The company&#8217;s results suggest that the threat of US tariffs has already affected sales.<\/li>\n<li>The mine, situated high in the Maluti Mountains, will continue processing at existing levels.<\/li>\n<li>But waste mining in both the main and satellite pits will be&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507280183.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>Between 250 and 300 permanent and contracted workers at Let\u0161eng Diamonds are expected to lose their jobs Between 250 and 300 permanent and contracted workers at Lesotho&#8217;s largest diamond mine, Let\u0161eng Diamonds, are expected to lose their jobs. The company&#8217;s results suggest that the threat of US tariffs has already affected sales. The mine, situated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":203496,"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":[258,256,16495,7465,6529,6643,4717,1407,6477,257,254,6723,7611,2282],"class_list":["post-203495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-axed","tag-diamond","tag-hundreds","tag-jobs","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tariff","tag-threats","tag-u-s"],"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\/203495","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=203495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}