{"id":208898,"date":"2025-10-04T07:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-kamoli-waits-with-bated-breath\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:30:10","slug":"lesotho-kamoli-waits-with-bated-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-kamoli-waits-with-bated-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Kamoli Waits With Bated Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>&#8230;as court decides his fate on Mahao murder case<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">THE once-untouchable former army commander, Tlali Kamoli, now waits with bated breath as the High Court prepares to deliver its ruling on his plea for acquittal in the 25 June 2015 murder of Lieutenant General (Lt-Gen) Maaparankoe Mahao.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Kamoli and seven other soldiers, charged with Mahao&#8217;s murder, filed an application for discharge after Crown Counsel, Advocate Rethabile Setlojoane, closed the state&#8217;s case last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510030106.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 court decides his fate on Mahao murder case THE once-untouchable former army commander, Tlali Kamoli, now waits with bated breath as the High Court prepares to deliver its ruling on his plea for acquittal in the 25 June 2015 murder of Lieutenant General (Lt-Gen) Maaparankoe Mahao. Kamoli and seven other soldiers, charged with Mahao&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208899,"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":[258,256,52483,12781,15346,4717,1407,257,254,24862],"class_list":["post-208898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bated","tag-breath","tag-kamoli","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-waits"],"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\/208898","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=208898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}