{"id":214307,"date":"2025-11-20T21:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-opposition-berates-govt-over-dpms-m1-million-trip\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:20:59","slug":"lesotho-opposition-berates-govt-over-dpms-m1-million-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-opposition-berates-govt-over-dpms-m1-million-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Opposition Berates Govt Over DPM&#8217;s M1 Million Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em>&#8230;says it is unlawful to pay for trip from the contingency fund<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><strong>O<\/strong>PPOSITION parties have come down heavily on what they say is the government&#8217;s reckless decision to draw over M1 million from the contingency fund to finance Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Nthomeng Majara&#8217;s trip to Brazil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The opposition argues that using the contingency fund for international travel is unlawful and unconstitutional, insisting that the matter should be challenged in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511190067.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;says it is unlawful to pay for trip from the contingency fund OPPOSITION parties have come down heavily on what they say is the government&#8217;s reckless decision to draw over M1 million from the contingency fund to finance Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Nthomeng Majara&#8217;s trip to Brazil. The opposition argues that using the contingency fund [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214308,"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":[258,256,10944,52911,4357,4717,1407,5118,257,5675,254,7199],"class_list":["post-214307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-berates","tag-dpms","tag-govt","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-million","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trip"],"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\/214307","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=214307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}