{"id":208144,"date":"2025-09-25T07:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-sa-to-sign-cross-border-agreement\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:08:56","slug":"lesotho-sa-to-sign-cross-border-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-sa-to-sign-cross-border-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho, SA to Sign Cross Border Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>&#8230;as local and Manyatseng transport operators scuffle over hawkers<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>&#8230;Moteane says the blockade by SA operators is illegal<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><strong>L<\/strong>ESOTHO and South African transport operators are expected to meet today following nasty clashes between local operators and their counterparts from Manyatseng, in Ladybrand, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The dispute erupted after Manyatseng operators barred Lesotho buses and minibuses from ferrying hawkers to Durban, where they usually buy stock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509240056.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>&#8230;as local and Manyatseng transport operators scuffle over hawkers &#8230;Moteane says the blockade by SA operators is illegal LESOTHO and South African transport operators are expected to meet today following nasty clashes between local operators and their counterparts from Manyatseng, in Ladybrand, South Africa. The dispute erupted after Manyatseng operators barred Lesotho buses and minibuses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208145,"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":[258,256,6423,1900,8816,4717,1407,257,4368,254],"class_list":["post-208144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agreement","tag-border","tag-cross","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-sign","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\/208144","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=208144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}