{"id":207399,"date":"2025-09-17T06:50:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-parly-tightens-screws-on-govt-borrowing\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T04:50:01","slug":"lesotho-parly-tightens-screws-on-govt-borrowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-parly-tightens-screws-on-govt-borrowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Parly Tightens Screws On Govt Borrowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>L<\/em>EADER of Opposition in Parliament, Mathibeli Mokhothu, has called for all state loans to be approved by Parliament to rein in the massive public debt the country frequently wrestles with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Democratic Congress (DC) leader made this call during debate on the Public Debt Management Bill, 2024, which seeks to regulate government borrowing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The National Assembly is moving to tighten the country&#8217;s borrowing to prevent parastatals from running unchecked borrowing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509160032.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>LEADER of Opposition in Parliament, Mathibeli Mokhothu, has called for all state loans to be approved by Parliament to rein in the massive public debt the country frequently wrestles with. The Democratic Congress (DC) leader made this call during debate on the Public Debt Management Bill, 2024, which seeks to regulate government borrowing. The National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207400,"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":[258,256,11107,4357,4717,1407,257,16432,15954,254,6846],"class_list":["post-207399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-borrowing","tag-govt","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-parly","tag-screws","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tightens"],"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\/207399","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=207399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}