{"id":208927,"date":"2025-10-04T19:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-introduces-customised-number-plates-with-advanced-security-features\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:31:08","slug":"lesotho-introduces-customised-number-plates-with-advanced-security-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-introduces-customised-number-plates-with-advanced-security-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Introduces Customised Number Plates With Advanced Security Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>T<\/em>HE Ministry of Public Works and Transport has unveiled Lesotho&#8217;s first customised number plates, with advanced security features designed to curb fraud and vehicle-related crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Launching the initiative at the Traffic Department in Ha Foso yesterday, Minister of Public Works and Transport, Matjato Moteane, also announced that the validity of number plates has been extended from five years to 10 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">At the ceremony, prominent businessman, Tanki &#8220;Tichere&#8221; Pule, became the first Mosotho to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510030105.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>THE Ministry of Public Works and Transport has unveiled Lesotho&#8217;s first customised number plates, with advanced security features designed to curb fraud and vehicle-related crimes. Launching the initiative at the Traffic Department in Ha Foso yesterday, Minister of Public Works and Transport, Matjato Moteane, also announced that the validity of number plates has been extended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208928,"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":[9089,258,256,52487,16900,8519,4717,1407,257,7043,35353,4586,254],"class_list":["post-208927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-advanced","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-customised","tag-features","tag-introduces","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-number","tag-plates","tag-security","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\/208927","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=208927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}