{"id":217456,"date":"2025-12-20T22:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-matekane-commends-china-for-continued-support\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:37:06","slug":"lesotho-matekane-commends-china-for-continued-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-matekane-commends-china-for-continued-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Matekane Commends China for Continued Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">PRIME Minister Sam Matekane has commended the government of China for supporting Lesotho&#8217;s efforts to mainstream agriculture as a key driver of economic growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Mr Matekane lauded China&#8217;s support after receiving grain storage facility yesterday at Ha Foso.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Speaking at the handover of the grain&#8217;s storage facility yesterday at Ha, Mr Matekane said the modern grain storage facility valued at about M150 million, marked the completion of a vision of a comprehensive approach to the agricultural&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512180287.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>PRIME Minister Sam Matekane has commended the government of China for supporting Lesotho&#8217;s efforts to mainstream agriculture as a key driver of economic growth. Mr Matekane lauded China&#8217;s support after receiving grain storage facility yesterday at Ha Foso. Speaking at the handover of the grain&#8217;s storage facility yesterday at Ha, Mr Matekane said the modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217457,"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":[258,256,434,8811,8291,4717,1407,31272,257,254,6096],"class_list":["post-217456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-china","tag-commends","tag-continued","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-matekane","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support"],"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\/217456","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=217456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}