{"id":208244,"date":"2025-09-26T07:12:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-communities-want-m50-billion-polihali-project-halted\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T07:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:12:58","slug":"lesotho-communities-want-m50-billion-polihali-project-halted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-communities-want-m50-billion-polihali-project-halted\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Communities Want M50 Billion Polihali Project Halted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>. . . Over a litany of &#8220;unmet&#8221; promises<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>. . . Insist project has destroyed their livelihoods<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><em>&#8211;Escalate their grievances to the IRM<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><strong>T<\/strong>HE host communities of the mammoth Polihali Dam project have demanded that the construction of the more than M50 billion project be halted.<\/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\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">They complain the project has destroyed their livelihoods and they have had to endure many &#8220;broken promises&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Consequently, they have accused one of the project&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509240055.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>. . . Over a litany of &#8220;unmet&#8221; promises . . . Insist project has destroyed their livelihoods &#8211;Escalate their grievances to the IRM THE host communities of the mammoth Polihali Dam project have demanded that the construction of the more than M50 billion project be halted. Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671355:74d7f3fecaee0aa9440ffe4e4f85bda1:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6495,7103,16666,4717,1407,52428,257,28155,6504,254],"class_list":["post-208244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billion","tag-communities","tag-halted","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-m50","tag-news","tag-polihali","tag-project","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671355:74d7f3fecaee0aa9440ffe4e4f85bda1:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208244","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=208244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}