{"id":209091,"date":"2025-10-06T19:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dpp-motinyane-speaks-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T19:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:35:10","slug":"lesotho-dpp-motinyane-speaks-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dpp-motinyane-speaks-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: DPP Motinyane Speaks &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">THE embattled Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Hlalefang Motinyane, has lifted the lid on the battles she claims are behind her controversial suspension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">From being locked out of her office despite a court order reinstating her to her job, to receiving threats after charging Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Sera Makharilele, Adv Motinyane insists her persecution is no coincidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Her 24 June 2025 suspension by Prime Minister Sam Matekane was nullified by the Constitutional Court&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510060146.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 embattled Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Hlalefang Motinyane, has lifted the lid on the battles she claims are behind her controversial suspension. From being locked out of her office despite a court order reinstating her to her job, to receiving threats after charging Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Sera Makharilele, Adv Motinyane insists her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209092,"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":[258,256,42655,8840,4717,1407,34274,257,254,5938],"class_list":["post-209091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-dpp","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-motinyane","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaks"],"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\/209091","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=209091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}