{"id":214139,"date":"2025-11-19T09:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-mahao-blasts-matekane-mps-over-absenteeism\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:17:48","slug":"lesotho-mahao-blasts-matekane-mps-over-absenteeism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-mahao-blasts-matekane-mps-over-absenteeism\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Mahao Blasts Matekane, MPs Over Absenteeism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>&#8230;warns country descending into dictatorship amid corruption, lawlessness<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\"><strong>T<\/strong>HE leader of the Basotho Action Party (BAP), Professor Nqosa Mahao, has strongly condemned Prime Minister Sam Matekane and members of the 11th Parliament for dodging parliamentary sittings. He said some MPs have been absent for over a year, yet continue to draw their salaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Speaking at a press conference at Mafube House in Maseru yesterday, Prof Mahao said parliament is the last line of accountability through its&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511190068.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>&#8230;warns country descending into dictatorship amid corruption, lawlessness THE leader of the Basotho Action Party (BAP), Professor Nqosa Mahao, has strongly condemned Prime Minister Sam Matekane and members of the 11th Parliament for dodging parliamentary sittings. He said some MPs have been absent for over a year, yet continue to draw their salaries. Speaking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214140,"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":[52767,258,256,9606,4717,1407,20142,31272,7260,257,254],"class_list":["post-214139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-absenteeism","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blasts","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-mahao","tag-matekane","tag-mps","tag-news","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\/214139","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=214139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}