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T<\/em>HE ongoing passport issuance crisis is more than an administrative backlog, it is a mirror reflecting deeper governance failures that continue to burden ordinary Basotho, particularly those whose livelihoods depend on cross-border work in South Africa.<\/p>\n While the government has pledged to issue passports within three days, the lived reality of applicants queuing for days without assistance exposes a troubling gap between policy pronouncements and actual service delivery.<\/p>\n For thousands of Basotho,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> THE ongoing passport issuance crisis is more than an administrative backlog, it is a mirror reflecting deeper governance failures that continue to burden ordinary Basotho, particularly those whose livelihoods depend on cross-border work in South Africa. While the government has pledged to issue passports within three days, the lived reality of applicants queuing for days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":219165,"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":[258,256,3723,10916,10481,23961,6866,4717,1407,257,4346,254],"class_list":["post-219164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-deeper","tag-exposes","tag-failures","tag-governance","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-passport","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\/219164","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=219164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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