{"id":220175,"date":"2026-01-12T11:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-21-years-strong-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:26:55","slug":"lesotho-21-years-strong-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-21-years-strong-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: 21 Years Strong! &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em>&#8230;how Standard Lesotho Bank LETOFE Lifestyle is shaping Africa&#8217;s creative economy<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"90\">What began as a scorching morning in Maseru slowly surrendered to an afternoon filled with heavy, unrelenting showers, rain that soaked the ground, the people, and the air itself. Yet the atmosphere refused to collapse. Basotho showed up, stayed, and had the best time. They danced, they waited, they laughed under umbrellas and raincoats, held together by music and a shared purpose. In that moment, Standard Lesotho&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601090502.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>&#8230;how Standard Lesotho Bank LETOFE Lifestyle is shaping Africa&#8217;s creative economy What began as a scorching morning in Maseru slowly surrendered to an afternoon filled with heavy, unrelenting showers, rain that soaked the ground, the people, and the air itself. Yet the atmosphere refused to collapse. Basotho showed up, stayed, and had the best time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":220176,"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":[258,256,42655,4717,1407,257,254,6948,5114],"class_list":["post-220175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strong","tag-years"],"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\/220175","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=220175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}