{"id":215609,"date":"2025-12-03T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-basotho-expect-better-government-performance-on-provision-of-key-public-services\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:56:00","slug":"lesotho-basotho-expect-better-government-performance-on-provision-of-key-public-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-basotho-expect-better-government-performance-on-provision-of-key-public-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Basotho Expect Better Government Performance On Provision of Key Public Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Infrastructure, security, water supply, and other services rank high among citizens&#8217; &#8216;most important problems&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Access to basic public-service infrastructure is uneven across Lesotho<\/li>\n<li>A majority of surveyed enumeration areas have access to piped water (73%), schools (72%), the national electricity grid (70%), and roads that are in fair, good, or very good condition (64%). In contrast, sewage systems (15%), police stations (24%), and health-care facilities (35%) remain severely limited.<\/li>\n<p>&#8230;<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512030148.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>Infrastructure, security, water supply, and other services rank high among citizens&#8217; &#8216;most important problems&#8217; Key findings Access to basic public-service infrastructure is uneven across Lesotho A majority of surveyed enumeration areas have access to piped water (73%), schools (72%), the national electricity grid (70%), and roads that are in fair, good, or very good condition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215610,"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":[258,256,18241,17712,6427,7274,4717,1407,257,8553,12250,5751,7155,254],"class_list":["post-215609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-basotho","tag-expect","tag-government","tag-key","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-performance","tag-provision","tag-public","tag-services","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\/215609","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=215609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}