{"id":206833,"date":"2025-09-11T18:27:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dump-site-fire-leaves-maseru-residents-in-choking-smoke-for-days\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T18:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:27:58","slug":"lesotho-dump-site-fire-leaves-maseru-residents-in-choking-smoke-for-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dump-site-fire-leaves-maseru-residents-in-choking-smoke-for-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Dump Site Fire Leaves Maseru Residents in Choking Smoke for Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em> The Ha T\u0161osane community has been fighting to close and relocate the dump for years <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Residents near Maseru&#8217;s T\u0161osane dumpsite have been choking on smoke since Saturday night.<\/li>\n<li>The community won a court settlement in February 2023, requiring Maseru City Council to relocate the dump to T\u0161oeneng, but no progress has been made.<\/li>\n<li>The department told Parliament that R400-million was needed for a new landfill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Maseru residents living near the T\u0161osane dumpsite have been choked by smoke from a fire&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509110413.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 Ha T\u0161osane community has been fighting to close and relocate the dump for years Residents near Maseru&#8217;s T\u0161osane dumpsite have been choking on smoke since Saturday night. The community won a court settlement in February 2023, requiring Maseru City Council to relocate the dump to T\u0161oeneng, but no progress has been made. The department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206834,"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":[258,256,42341,6192,5172,6600,9647,4717,1407,1410,257,4288,7378,10341,254],"class_list":["post-206833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-choking","tag-days","tag-dump","tag-fire","tag-leaves","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-maseru","tag-news","tag-residents","tag-site","tag-smoke","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/206833","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=206833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}