{"id":220230,"date":"2026-01-12T23:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-why-people-from-lesotho-cross-the-border-illegally\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:27:55","slug":"lesotho-why-people-from-lesotho-cross-the-border-illegally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-why-people-from-lesotho-cross-the-border-illegally\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Why People From Lesotho Cross the Border Illegally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em> Document offices across the country overwhelmed over the festive season with long queues <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Lesotho Department of Home Affairs office at Mohale&#8217;s Hoek in Lesotho has been overwhelmed with snaking queues as thousands returned home to renew their documents over the festive season.<\/li>\n<li>Because many of the documents are delayed, many people have to unlawfully cross swollen rivers on foot or on the backs of paid ferrymen to reach South Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Lesotho&#8217;s Department of Home Affairs has since extended&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601120308.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>Document offices across the country overwhelmed over the festive season with long queues The Lesotho Department of Home Affairs office at Mohale&#8217;s Hoek in Lesotho has been overwhelmed with snaking queues as thousands returned home to renew their documents over the festive season. Because many of the documents are delayed, many people have to unlawfully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":220231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00471584:2638e015455ab5f2ae96eca04237fa86:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,1900,8816,7193,4717,1407,257,6321,254],"class_list":["post-220230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-cross","tag-illegally","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-people","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00471584:2638e015455ab5f2ae96eca04237fa86:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220230","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=220230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}