{"id":214065,"date":"2025-11-18T21:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-experts-warn-on-impact-of-declining-accountability-good-governance\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:16:51","slug":"lesotho-experts-warn-on-impact-of-declining-accountability-good-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-experts-warn-on-impact-of-declining-accountability-good-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Experts Warn On Impact of Declining Accountability, Good Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Governance\u00a0 experts have raised the alarm over the growing erosion of accountability and good governance under the current Revolution for Prosperity (RFP)-led coalition government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Their concerns follow a series of recent developments that, according to observers, expose a disturbing pattern of political interference, abuse of power, and lack of commitment to fighting corruption within Prime Minister Sam Matekane&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The recent dismissal of Revenue Services Lesotho (RSL)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511180184.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>Governance\u00a0 experts have raised the alarm over the growing erosion of accountability and good governance under the current Revolution for Prosperity (RFP)-led coalition government. Their concerns follow a series of recent developments that, according to observers, expose a disturbing pattern of political interference, abuse of power, and lack of commitment to fighting corruption within Prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214066,"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":[13948,258,256,16093,5060,6677,6866,5064,4717,1407,257,254,12313],"class_list":["post-214065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-accountability","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-declining","tag-experts","tag-good","tag-governance","tag-impact","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warn"],"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\/214065","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=214065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}