{"id":213394,"date":"2025-11-12T21:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-community-left-in-ruins-by-highway-project\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T21:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:03:48","slug":"lesotho-community-left-in-ruins-by-highway-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-community-left-in-ruins-by-highway-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Community Left in Ruins By Highway Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em> The road, built by a Chinese company, has improved access to Qacha&#8217;s Nek but also caused damage and displacement <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Lesotho parliamentary report has revealed extensive damage, poor oversight, and irregular compensation linked to a R1.9-billion road infrastructure project.<\/li>\n<li>Villagers say the road, built by a Chinese company, has left homes cracked, fields flooded, and families displaced, with some still waiting for compensation years later.<\/li>\n<li>The contractor and the government both acknowledge&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511120465.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>The road, built by a Chinese company, has improved access to Qacha&#8217;s Nek but also caused damage and displacement A Lesotho parliamentary report has revealed extensive damage, poor oversight, and irregular compensation linked to a R1.9-billion road infrastructure project. Villagers say the road, built by a Chinese company, has left homes cracked, fields flooded, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":213395,"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":[258,256,7963,9419,7781,4717,1407,257,6504,21802,254],"class_list":["post-213394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-community","tag-highway","tag-left","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-project","tag-ruins","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\/213394","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=213394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}