{"id":214387,"date":"2025-11-21T09:21:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-foreigners-out-prosperity-in-the-great-lesotho-self-inflicted-business-comedy\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:21:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:21:51","slug":"lesotho-foreigners-out-prosperity-in-the-great-lesotho-self-inflicted-business-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-foreigners-out-prosperity-in-the-great-lesotho-self-inflicted-business-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Foreigners Out, Prosperity In? &#8211; &#8211; the Great Lesotho Self Inflicted Business Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"78\">If Lesotho ever establishes a Ministry of Comedy, Scrutator proposes that the first order of business should be to award the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Business Development a Lifetime Achievement Award for Unprovoked National Self-Sabotage. Truly&#8211;what the Romans did for architecture, what the Greeks did for philosophy, the Ministry of Trade has done for economic absurdity. It shouldn&#8217;t be called the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Business Development. But the Ministry of Mistrade,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511210070.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>If Lesotho ever establishes a Ministry of Comedy, Scrutator proposes that the first order of business should be to award the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Business Development a Lifetime Achievement Award for Unprovoked National Self-Sabotage. Truly&#8211;what the Romans did for architecture, what the Greeks did for philosophy, the Ministry of Trade has done for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214388,"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":[4338,258,256,21864,7770,8273,29282,4717,1407,257,12870,254],"class_list":["post-214387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-comedy","tag-foreigners","tag-great","tag-inflicted","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-prosperity","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\/214387","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=214387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}