{"id":219823,"date":"2026-01-09T23:21:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-court-tightens-grip-on-firearm-exhibits\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T23:21:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:21:55","slug":"lesotho-court-tightens-grip-on-firearm-exhibits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-court-tightens-grip-on-firearm-exhibits\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Court Tightens Grip On Firearm Exhibits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>T<\/em>HE High Court has warned that it will no longer tolerate the disappearance of firearm exhibits from police custody, amid growing concern that such weapons later resurface in the hands of criminals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Justice T\u0161eliso Mokoko has ordered the Commissioner of Police, Advocate Borotho Matsoso, to formally notify the court of the date on which recovered firearm exhibits will be destroyed, adding that the court itself will attend and witness the destruction to ensure accountability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The directive follows&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601090221.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>THE High Court has warned that it will no longer tolerate the disappearance of firearm exhibits from police custody, amid growing concern that such weapons later resurface in the hands of criminals. Justice T\u0161eliso Mokoko has ordered the Commissioner of Police, Advocate Borotho Matsoso, to formally notify the court of the date on which recovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":219824,"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":[258,256,6185,27873,21171,6847,4717,1407,257,254,6846],"class_list":["post-219823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-exhibits","tag-firearm","tag-grip","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tightens"],"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\/219823","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=219823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}