{"id":206480,"date":"2025-09-07T18:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesothos-giant-dam-takes-shape\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:15:29","slug":"lesothos-giant-dam-takes-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesothos-giant-dam-takes-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho&#8217;s Giant Dam Takes Shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em> Polihali Dam will boost water transfers to Gauteng <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Construction of the Polihali Dam in Lesotho&#8217;s highlands is advancing after delays, with 30% of the main work completed, according to the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority.<\/li>\n<li>The huge dam will boost the water supply to Gauteng.<\/li>\n<li>About R18-billion of the R53-billion project has been spent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Construction of Lesotho&#8217;s giant Polihali Dam, which will boost the water supply to Gauteng, is advancing after years of delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">The dam in Mokhotlong is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509070207.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>Polihali Dam will boost water transfers to Gauteng Construction of the Polihali Dam in Lesotho&#8217;s highlands is advancing after delays, with 30% of the main work completed, according to the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority. The huge dam will boost the water supply to Gauteng. About R18-billion of the R53-billion project has been spent. Construction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671355:74d7f3fecaee0aa9440ffe4e4f85bda1:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,7146,10414,1407,9990,257,14777,254,5056],"class_list":["post-206480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dam","tag-giant","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothos","tag-news","tag-shape","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671355:74d7f3fecaee0aa9440ffe4e4f85bda1:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206480","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=206480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}