{"id":215710,"date":"2025-12-04T21:57:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/south-africa-payments-to-sick-miners-in-lesotho-resume-after-fraud-scare\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T21:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:57:57","slug":"south-africa-payments-to-sick-miners-in-lesotho-resume-after-fraud-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/south-africa-payments-to-sick-miners-in-lesotho-resume-after-fraud-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Payments to Sick Miners in Lesotho Resume After Fraud Scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em> Medical Bureau for Occupational Diseases reports fraud of R1.4-million <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa&#8217;s Medical Bureau for Occupational Diseases (MBOD) has resumed payments of compensation to former miners in Lesotho.<\/li>\n<li>Payments were suspended in 2024 after the MBOD lost R1.4-million to fraudulent death claims in Lesotho.<\/li>\n<li>MBOD compensates former miners who contracted disease in South African mines.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, the Tshiamiso Trust has detected a different pattern of fraud, involving a small number of&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512040276.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>Medical Bureau for Occupational Diseases reports fraud of R1.4-million South Africa&#8217;s Medical Bureau for Occupational Diseases (MBOD) has resumed payments of compensation to former miners in Lesotho. Payments were suspended in 2024 after the MBOD lost R1.4-million to fraudulent death claims in Lesotho. MBOD compensates former miners who contracted disease in South African mines. Meanwhile, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215711,"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":[258,256,8666,4717,1407,13332,257,6841,7983,13126,14679,5069,254],"class_list":["post-215710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fraud","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-miners","tag-news","tag-payments","tag-resume","tag-scare","tag-sick","tag-south","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\/215710","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=215710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}