{"id":204930,"date":"2025-08-18T16:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-health-minister-says-his-country-must-be-less-reliant-on-sa-and-stop-being-beggars\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:15:06","slug":"lesotho-health-minister-says-his-country-must-be-less-reliant-on-sa-and-stop-being-beggars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-health-minister-says-his-country-must-be-less-reliant-on-sa-and-stop-being-beggars\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Health Minister Says His Country Must Be Less Reliant On SA and &#8216;Stop Being Beggars&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em> This comes after an outcry that Basotho nationals are denied medical care in South Africa <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Lesotho&#8217;s Minister of Health Selibe Mochoboroane has addressed concerns raised by South Africa over Basotho nationals and other migrants using its public health system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Mochoboroane spoke to the media in Maseru last week, after meeting his South African counterpart, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, in Pretoria. The meeting <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/groundup.org.za\/article\/lesotho-migrant-association-denial-of-healthcare\/\" rel=\"noopener\">follows an outcry<\/a> over the denial of medical care to Basotho nationals at clinics and hospitals&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508180368.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>This comes after an outcry that Basotho nationals are denied medical care in South Africa Lesotho&#8217;s Minister of Health Selibe Mochoboroane has addressed concerns raised by South Africa over Basotho nationals and other migrants using its public health system. Mochoboroane spoke to the media in Maseru last week, after meeting his South African counterpart, Dr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204931,"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":[258,256,16582,5042,5731,4717,1407,5941,257,52136,254,8652],"class_list":["post-204930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beggars","tag-country","tag-health","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-reliant","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stop"],"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\/204930","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=204930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}