{"id":209904,"date":"2025-10-15T07:55:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-financial-constraints-hamper-parly-operations\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T07:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T05:55:51","slug":"lesotho-financial-constraints-hamper-parly-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-financial-constraints-hamper-parly-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Financial Constraints Hamper Parly Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><em>&#8230;hinder localisation of SADC model laws<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><strong>L<\/strong>ESOTHO&#8217;s Parliament is unable to designate a focal person to monitor the domestication of Southern African Development Community (SADC) Model Laws due to financial constraints and a lack of full institutional autonomy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">This was revealed during a benchmarking visit to the Parliament of Lesotho by the SADC Parliamentary Forum (SADC-PF) Regional Parliamentary Model Laws Oversight Committee yesterday at the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Speaking during the engagement,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510130449.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;hinder localisation of SADC model laws LESOTHO&#8217;s Parliament is unable to designate a focal person to monitor the domestication of Southern African Development Community (SADC) Model Laws due to financial constraints and a lack of full institutional autonomy. This was revealed during a benchmarking visit to the Parliament of Lesotho by the SADC Parliamentary Forum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209905,"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\/00671522:d819a2abdad332b951e4748dc66b8753:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,10984,5063,19095,4717,1407,257,6345,16432,254],"class_list":["post-209904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-constraints","tag-financial","tag-hamper","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-operations","tag-parly","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671522:d819a2abdad332b951e4748dc66b8753:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209904","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=209904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}