{"id":207983,"date":"2025-09-23T19:05:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-malawian-politician-fired-in-2022-appointed-to-lesotho-highlands-water-commission\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:05:50","slug":"lesotho-malawian-politician-fired-in-2022-appointed-to-lesotho-highlands-water-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-malawian-politician-fired-in-2022-appointed-to-lesotho-highlands-water-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Malawian Politician, Fired in 2022, Appointed to Lesotho Highlands Water Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em> Helen Buluma&#8217;s appointment as deputy CEO of the National Oil Company of Malawi was declared invalid in 2022 <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Malawian politician Helen Buluma was appointed as secretary of the Lesotho Highlands Water Commission (LHWC) in April. Buluma previously acted as deputy CEO of Malawi&#8217;s state oil company, where she faced allegations of mismanagement. She was fired in 2022 after her appointment was declared invalid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The LHWC represents the governments of Lesotho and South Africa and oversees the Lesotho&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509230327.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>Helen Buluma&#8217;s appointment as deputy CEO of the National Oil Company of Malawi was declared invalid in 2022 Malawian politician Helen Buluma was appointed as secretary of the Lesotho Highlands Water Commission (LHWC) in April. Buluma previously acted as deputy CEO of Malawi&#8217;s state oil company, where she faced allegations of mismanagement. She was fired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207984,"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":[258,256,10924,6274,12530,11327,4717,1407,10173,257,8314,254,6722],"class_list":["post-207983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appointed","tag-commission","tag-fired","tag-highlands","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-malawian","tag-news","tag-politician","tag-south-africa-today","tag-water"],"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\/207983","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=207983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}