{"id":211727,"date":"2025-10-29T08:27:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-call-to-scrap-passports-between-lesotho-and-sa\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:27:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:27:19","slug":"lesotho-call-to-scrap-passports-between-lesotho-and-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-call-to-scrap-passports-between-lesotho-and-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Call to Scrap Passports Between Lesotho and SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em> Lesotho&#8217;s opposition Basotho Action Party has launched a campaign to ease cross-border travel using national identity cards <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Lesotho opposition party, Basotho Action Party, has launched a campaign urging the government to abolish the use of passports between Lesotho and South Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Party leader Nqosa Mahao is calling for citizens to be allowed to use national ID cards for cross-border movement and for residency purposes.<\/li>\n<li>Lesotho home affairs minister says both countries&#8217; governments are&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510230201.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>Lesotho&#8217;s opposition Basotho Action Party has launched a campaign to ease cross-border travel using national identity cards A Lesotho opposition party, Basotho Action Party, has launched a campaign urging the government to abolish the use of passports between Lesotho and South Africa. Party leader Nqosa Mahao is calling for citizens to be allowed to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211728,"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":[258,256,6880,4717,1407,257,17895,16754,254],"class_list":["post-211727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-call","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-passports","tag-scrap","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\/211727","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=211727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}