{"id":205450,"date":"2025-08-25T17:41:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/southern-africa-govt-accused-of-deceiving-sadc\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:41:06","slug":"southern-africa-govt-accused-of-deceiving-sadc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/southern-africa-govt-accused-of-deceiving-sadc\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Govt Accused of Deceiving SADC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">THE government stands accused of misleading the Southern African Development Community (SADC) into removing Lesotho from the Organ Troika&#8217;s agenda during the 45th Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government, held last week in Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">While some politicians believe that Lesotho&#8217;s removal was based on the &#8220;misleading&#8221; passage of the 10th Amendment Bill without observing the Constitution; others argue that the removal was long overdue and that Lesotho was never supposed to be on the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508250226.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>THE government stands accused of misleading the Southern African Development Community (SADC) into removing Lesotho from the Organ Troika&#8217;s agenda during the 45th Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government, held last week in Madagascar. While some politicians believe that Lesotho&#8217;s removal was based on the &#8220;misleading&#8221; passage of the 10th Amendment Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205451,"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":[7083,258,256,45482,4357,1407,257,1412,254,7153],"class_list":["post-205450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deceiving","tag-govt","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-sadc","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern"],"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\/205450","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=205450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}