{"id":212190,"date":"2025-11-01T20:33:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-workers-march-in-maseru-as-agoa-uncertainty-threatens-thousands-of-jobs\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T20:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T18:33:50","slug":"lesotho-workers-march-in-maseru-as-agoa-uncertainty-threatens-thousands-of-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-workers-march-in-maseru-as-agoa-uncertainty-threatens-thousands-of-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Workers March in Maseru As AGOA Uncertainty Threatens Thousands of Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em> Protest, originally banned, proceeded after police minister gave it the go-ahead <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Hundreds of garment-factory workers marched through Maseru on Friday, demanding urgent government action to save Lesotho&#8217;s collapsing textile industry. The march comes as uncertainty about the renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) deepens fears of job losses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">AGOA is a trade agreement with the US that allows duty-free exports of Lesotho-made garments to the American market. Workers said that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511010014.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>Protest, originally banned, proceeded after police minister gave it the go-ahead Hundreds of garment-factory workers marched through Maseru on Friday, demanding urgent government action to save Lesotho&#8217;s collapsing textile industry. The march comes as uncertainty about the renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) deepens fears of job losses. AGOA is a trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":212191,"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":[258,256,6245,6643,4717,1407,9677,1410,257,254,9216,10413,12167,6498],"class_list":["post-212190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agoa","tag-jobs","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-march","tag-maseru","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thousands","tag-threatens","tag-uncertainty","tag-workers"],"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\/212190","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=212190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}