{"id":207496,"date":"2025-09-18T06:52:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dceo-clears-editor-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T06:52:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:52:35","slug":"lesotho-dceo-clears-editor-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dceo-clears-editor-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: DCEO Clears Editor &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em>. . . withdraws impersonation charge for lack of evidence<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) has withdrawn an impersonation charge against the <em>Lesotho Times<\/em> and <em>Sunday Express<\/em> editor, Mohalenyane Phakela.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">In a statement released yesterday, DCEO said its investigations had found &#8220;no material evidence&#8221; to prove that Mr Phakela had masqueraded as a DCEO official to obtain information relating to former Lesotho Correctional Service (LCS) Commissioner, Mating Nkakala, from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509150670.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>. . . withdraws impersonation charge for lack of evidence The Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) has withdrawn an impersonation charge against the Lesotho Times and Sunday Express editor, Mohalenyane Phakela. In a statement released yesterday, DCEO said its investigations had found &#8220;no material evidence&#8221; to prove that Mr Phakela had masqueraded as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207497,"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":[258,256,42655,11223,13434,10561,4717,1407,257,254],"class_list":["post-207496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-clears","tag-dceo","tag-editor","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","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\/207496","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=207496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}