{"id":209838,"date":"2025-10-14T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-gvg-speaks-out-on-controversial-spy-tender\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:55:08","slug":"lesotho-gvg-speaks-out-on-controversial-spy-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-gvg-speaks-out-on-controversial-spy-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: GVG Speaks Out On Controversial &#8216;Spy&#8217; Tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em>. . . insists system cannot be used to spy on citizens&#8217; private calls<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em>. . . but ensures effective regulatory protocols and revenue collection<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\"><strong>A<\/strong>MID the raging M500 million tender dispute over the Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA)&#8217;s Compliance Monitoring and Revenue Assurance (CMRA) system, widely criticised as a potential &#8220;spy&#8221; tool, the <strong>Lesotho Times (LT) <\/strong>sat down with <strong>Global Voice Group (GVG)<\/strong> Communications Manager, <strong>Susana G. Hiernaux<\/strong>, to discuss the company&#8217;s operations, ethics and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510130450.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>. . . insists system cannot be used to spy on citizens&#8217; private calls . . . but ensures effective regulatory protocols and revenue collection AMID the raging M500 million tender dispute over the Lesotho Communications Authority (LCA)&#8217;s Compliance Monitoring and Revenue Assurance (CMRA) system, widely criticised as a potential &#8220;spy&#8221; tool, the Lesotho Times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209839,"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":[258,256,11087,21419,4717,1407,257,254,5938,18194,8121],"class_list":["post-209838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-controversial","tag-gvg","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaks","tag-spy","tag-tender"],"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\/209838","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=209838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}