{"id":205810,"date":"2025-08-29T17:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-our-political-system-is-broken-and-fragile-dr-moroke\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:54:12","slug":"lesotho-our-political-system-is-broken-and-fragile-dr-moroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-our-political-system-is-broken-and-fragile-dr-moroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Our Political System Is Broken and Fragile &#8211; Dr Moroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><strong>M<\/strong>EMBER of Parliament (MP) for Matala Constituency under the Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) banner, <strong>T\u015deliso Moroke (TM)<\/strong>, has asserted that Lesotho&#8217;s political system is broken and is consequently holding back the country&#8217;s progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">According to Dr Moroke, the current political system, which has persisted for years, empowers already powerful individuals instead of ordinary Basotho, who continue to wait endlessly for change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">To remedy the situation, he says leaders must move beyond making empty&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508290464.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>MEMBER of Parliament (MP) for Matala Constituency under the Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) banner, T\u015deliso Moroke (TM), has asserted that Lesotho&#8217;s political system is broken and is consequently holding back the country&#8217;s progress. According to Dr Moroke, the current political system, which has persisted for years, empowers already powerful individuals instead of ordinary Basotho, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205811,"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":[258,256,7710,15764,4717,1407,52212,257,6378,254,7232],"class_list":["post-205810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-broken","tag-fragile","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-moroke","tag-news","tag-political","tag-south-africa-today","tag-system"],"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\/205810","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=205810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}