{"id":217173,"date":"2025-12-18T22:31:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-90-chefs-graduate-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:31:56","slug":"lesotho-90-chefs-graduate-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-90-chefs-graduate-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: 90 Chefs Graduate &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><strong>P<\/strong>OPULAR local culinary school, Dona@balos, held its 13th graduation ceremony in Maseru on Monday this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">A total of 90 fresh chefs graduated from the school comprising 50 who obtained certificates, and 40 who were awarded diplomas at a colourful ceremony that ended with a gala dinner, where the outstanding graduates received awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking at the ceremony, Dona@balos Founder and Principal, Donald Moletsane, affectionately known as Chef Donald, said the school had faced a huge financial crisis&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512180290.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>POPULAR local culinary school, Dona@balos, held its 13th graduation ceremony in Maseru on Monday this week. A total of 90 fresh chefs graduated from the school comprising 50 who obtained certificates, and 40 who were awarded diplomas at a colourful ceremony that ended with a gala dinner, where the outstanding graduates received awards. Speaking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217174,"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":[258,256,42655,11299,24390,4717,1407,257,254],"class_list":["post-217173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-chefs","tag-graduate","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","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\/217173","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=217173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}