{"id":214590,"date":"2025-11-23T09:25:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-mahlala-calls-for-prosecution-of-corrupt-ministers\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T09:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T07:25:49","slug":"lesotho-mahlala-calls-for-prosecution-of-corrupt-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-mahlala-calls-for-prosecution-of-corrupt-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Mahlala Calls for Prosecution of Corrupt Ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\"><em>&#8230;blasts rampant graft in the RFP-led government<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><em>&#8230;Government spokesperson Sekonyela hits back<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Moroke Sekoboto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><strong>T<\/strong>HE Basotho Development Front (BDF) leader, Bothata Mahlala, has called for privately funded prosecutions against individuals accused of looting public funds, saying Lesotho cannot rebuild itself without confronting corruption head-on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines 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><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Speaking at his inaugural press conference yesterday at the Transformation Resource&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511210327.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;blasts rampant graft in the RFP-led government &#8230;Government spokesperson Sekonyela hits back Moroke Sekoboto THE Basotho Development Front (BDF) leader, Bothata Mahlala, has called for privately funded prosecutions against individuals accused of looting public funds, saying Lesotho cannot rebuild itself without confronting corruption head-on. Keep up with the latest headlines on WhatsApp | LinkedIn Speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214591,"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":[258,256,6137,11894,4717,1407,29908,8788,257,4545,254],"class_list":["post-214590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-corrupt","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-mahlala","tag-ministers","tag-news","tag-prosecution","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\/214590","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=214590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}