{"id":211132,"date":"2025-10-24T20:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-phafane-nthunya-face-off-again\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:16:49","slug":"lesotho-phafane-nthunya-face-off-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-phafane-nthunya-face-off-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Phafane, Nthunya Face Off Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>M<\/em>ACHOKHA Football Club president, Lijane Nthunya, will once again attempt to unseat long-serving Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) president, Salemane Phafane, in what promises to be another high-stakes showdown for the control of local football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The two will battle it out on Saturday during the LeFA 20th Elective Congress at the association&#8217;s headquarters, Bambatha T\u0161ita Sports Arena, in Maseru.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Nthunya, who also serves as the president of the Maseru District Football Association (DiFA), is no&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510230413.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>MACHOKHA Football Club president, Lijane Nthunya, will once again attempt to unseat long-serving Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) president, Salemane Phafane, in what promises to be another high-stakes showdown for the control of local football. The two will battle it out on Saturday during the LeFA 20th Elective Congress at the association&#8217;s headquarters, Bambatha T\u0161ita Sports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211133,"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":[258,256,7127,4717,1407,257,52671,33640,254],"class_list":["post-211132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-face","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-nthunya","tag-phafane","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\/211132","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=211132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}