{"id":216575,"date":"2025-12-13T22:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-unfazed-lipholo-forges-on\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T20:19:57","slug":"lesotho-unfazed-lipholo-forges-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-unfazed-lipholo-forges-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: &#8216;Unfazed&#8217; Lipholo Forges On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\"><strong>B<\/strong>ASOTHO Covenant Movement (BCM) leader, Dr T\u0161epo Lipholo, has vowed to forge ahead with his mission to reclaim a piece of land he alleges South Africa &#8220;illegally took&#8221; from Lesotho &#8212; insisting that no amount of intimidation, arrest or government pressure will stop him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Addressing cheering supporters on Tuesday afternoon, his first public appearance since being granted bail the previous day, Dr Lipholo said the six months he spent in detention had only strengthened his resolve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Dr Lipholo, who&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512120576.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>BASOTHO Covenant Movement (BCM) leader, Dr T\u0161epo Lipholo, has vowed to forge ahead with his mission to reclaim a piece of land he alleges South Africa &#8220;illegally took&#8221; from Lesotho &#8212; insisting that no amount of intimidation, arrest or government pressure will stop him. Addressing cheering supporters on Tuesday afternoon, his first public appearance since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216576,"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":[258,256,13585,4717,1407,50650,257,254,9009],"class_list":["post-216575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-forges","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lipholo","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unfazed"],"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\/216575","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=216575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}