{"id":217807,"date":"2025-12-23T10:41:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-letsoepas-fresh-bail-bid-stalls\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T10:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:41:55","slug":"lesotho-letsoepas-fresh-bail-bid-stalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-letsoepas-fresh-bail-bid-stalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Letsoepa&#8217;s Fresh Bail Bid Stalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Former Police Commissioner Molahlehi Letsoepa&#8217;s latest bail hearing has hit a snag, as procedural hurdles continue to stall progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Instead of arguments on the merits being heard on Monday, the High Court was forced into a technical dispute over whether Judge &#8216;Mafelile Ralebese is permitted to preside, a development that has further prolonged the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Mr Letsoepa faces charges alongside four other police officers for the 2016 murder of Police Constable Mokalekale Khetheng. However, he fled the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512110021.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>Former Police Commissioner Molahlehi Letsoepa&#8217;s latest bail hearing has hit a snag, as procedural hurdles continue to stall progress. Instead of arguments on the merits being heard on Monday, the High Court was forced into a technical dispute over whether Judge &#8216;Mafelile Ralebese is permitted to preside, a development that has further prolonged the case. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217808,"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":[258,256,7900,10798,8936,4717,1407,52589,257,254,11885],"class_list":["post-217807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bail","tag-bid","tag-fresh","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-letsoepas","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stalls"],"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\/217807","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=217807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}