{"id":217027,"date":"2025-12-17T22:29:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-cbl-strengthens-maloti-banknotes-security-features\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T22:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:29:54","slug":"lesotho-cbl-strengthens-maloti-banknotes-security-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-cbl-strengthens-maloti-banknotes-security-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: CBL Strengthens Maloti Banknotes&#8217; Security Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><em>&#8230;upgrades bills to curb counterfeit threats<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) has upgraded the Maloti banknotes to enhance security features, modernise the design, improve durability, align the currency with global cash-management standards, promote inclusivity, and preserve national heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">CBL Governor, Dr Maluke Letete, launched the new family of the national currency at the Lehakoe Recreational and Cultural Centre this week. This sixth series follows previous issues introduced in 1979,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512110077.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;upgrades bills to curb counterfeit threats The Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) has upgraded the Maloti banknotes to enhance security features, modernise the design, improve durability, align the currency with global cash-management standards, promote inclusivity, and preserve national heritage. CBL Governor, Dr Maluke Letete, launched the new family of the national currency at the Lehakoe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217028,"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":[258,256,11937,10022,16900,4717,1407,51777,257,4586,254,11921],"class_list":["post-217027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-banknotes","tag-cbl","tag-features","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-maloti","tag-news","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthens"],"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\/217027","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=217027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}