{"id":205773,"date":"2025-08-29T05:53:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-pm-matekane-fights-back-in-dpp-suspension-case\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T05:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:53:23","slug":"lesotho-pm-matekane-fights-back-in-dpp-suspension-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-pm-matekane-fights-back-in-dpp-suspension-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: PM Matekane Fights Back in DPP Suspension Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em>. . . says Law Society has no legal standing to challenge his decision<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">PRIME Minister, Sam Matekane, has hit back at the Law Society of Lesotho (LSL), insisting it has no business challenging his suspension of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Hlalefang Motinyane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Mr Matekane&#8217;s lawyer, Advocate (Adv) Guido Heinz Penzhorn, told the Constitutional Court this week that the suspension was an operational decision between the DPP and Attorney General Adv Rapelang Motsieloa KC. He therefore&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508280116.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>. . . says Law Society has no legal standing to challenge his decision PRIME Minister, Sam Matekane, has hit back at the Law Society of Lesotho (LSL), insisting it has no business challenging his suspension of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Hlalefang Motinyane. Mr Matekane&#8217;s lawyer, Advocate (Adv) Guido Heinz Penzhorn, told the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205774,"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":[258,256,6683,8840,8958,4717,1407,31272,257,254,10829],"class_list":["post-205773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-dpp","tag-fights","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-matekane","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspension"],"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\/205773","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=205773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}