{"id":213276,"date":"2025-11-11T21:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-sheds-textile-jobs-amidst-u-s-trade-uncertainty\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T21:02:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T19:02:09","slug":"lesotho-sheds-textile-jobs-amidst-u-s-trade-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-sheds-textile-jobs-amidst-u-s-trade-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Sheds Textile Jobs Amidst U.S. Trade Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em> Hippo Knitting has laid off 295 workers and plans to retrench another 420 in January <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lesotho textile factory Hippo Knitting laid off 295 workers last month, plans to retrench another 420 workers in January, and may shut down altogether by July 2026.<\/li>\n<li>The company says this is due to cancelled US orders caused by uncertainty over the renewal of the AGOA trade agreement with the US.<\/li>\n<li>But the National Clothing, Textile and Allied Workers Union accuses the company of using AGOA uncertainty as a cover&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511110437.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>Hippo Knitting has laid off 295 workers and plans to retrench another 420 in January Lesotho textile factory Hippo Knitting laid off 295 workers last month, plans to retrench another 420 workers in January, and may shut down altogether by July 2026. The company says this is due to cancelled US orders caused by uncertainty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":213277,"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\/00671512:c11aee1133f4a9acf8174a4c316f9348:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6643,4717,1407,257,45698,254,10501,5979,2282,12167],"class_list":["post-213276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-jobs","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-sheds","tag-south-africa-today","tag-textile","tag-trade","tag-u-s","tag-uncertainty"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671512:c11aee1133f4a9acf8174a4c316f9348:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213276","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=213276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}