{"id":211376,"date":"2025-10-26T20:20:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-mp-lekitla-slams-judges-conduct-in-his-murder-trial\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T20:20:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T18:20:56","slug":"lesotho-mp-lekitla-slams-judges-conduct-in-his-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-mp-lekitla-slams-judges-conduct-in-his-murder-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: MP Lekitla Slams Judge&#8217;s Conduct in His Murder Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\"><em>&#8230;says Hlaele&#8217;s remarks show bias, pushes for new judge<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Moorosi Tsiane<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><strong>M<\/strong>URDER-accused Democratic Congress (DC) legislator, Thabiso Lekitla, has intensified his efforts to have Justice &#8216;Mabatsoeneng Hlaele removed from presiding over his trial, accusing her of inappropriate conduct and bias during proceedings held last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Through his lawyer, Advocate Motiea Teele KC, the Mekaling lawmaker alleges that Justice Hlaele made improper remarks when he applied for a postponement of his trial in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510230410.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;says Hlaele&#8217;s remarks show bias, pushes for new judge Moorosi Tsiane MURDER-accused Democratic Congress (DC) legislator, Thabiso Lekitla, has intensified his efforts to have Justice &#8216;Mabatsoeneng Hlaele removed from presiding over his trial, accusing her of inappropriate conduct and bias during proceedings held last year. Through his lawyer, Advocate Motiea Teele KC, the Mekaling lawmaker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211377,"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":[258,256,6343,7031,52692,4717,1407,304,257,9757,254,6564],"class_list":["post-211376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conduct","tag-judges","tag-lekitla","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-slams","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial"],"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\/211376","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=211376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}