{"id":215226,"date":"2025-11-29T09:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-maseru-dump-site-to-be-closed-after-community-goes-to-court\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T09:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:37:55","slug":"lesotho-maseru-dump-site-to-be-closed-after-community-goes-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-maseru-dump-site-to-be-closed-after-community-goes-to-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Maseru Dump Site to Be Closed After Community Goes to Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em> Ha T\u0161osane residents have lived next to mountains of waste for years <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">After years of living next to mountains of waste, residents of Ha T\u0161osane in Maseru have reached an agreement that will see the dump site, which has bedevilled the community for decades, permanently closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Residents led by applicants Taole Mangope, Mampolokeng Thamae and six others filed a court application in 2022, arguing that the Maseru City Council&#8217;s continued dumping at the site violated their constitutional rights to a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511280009.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>Ha T\u0161osane residents have lived next to mountains of waste for years After years of living next to mountains of waste, residents of Ha T\u0161osane in Maseru have reached an agreement that will see the dump site, which has bedevilled the community for decades, permanently closed. Residents led by applicants Taole Mangope, Mampolokeng Thamae and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215227,"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":[258,256,6851,7963,6185,5172,4717,1407,1410,257,7378,254],"class_list":["post-215226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-closed","tag-community","tag-court","tag-dump","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-maseru","tag-news","tag-site","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\/215226","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=215226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}