{"id":220303,"date":"2026-01-13T11:28:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-former-ps-nchaka-dies\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:28:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T09:28:48","slug":"lesotho-former-ps-nchaka-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-former-ps-nchaka-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Former PS Nchaka Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em>Former<\/em>\u00a0Principal Secretary and prominent opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) member, Malefetsane Nchaka, has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Mr Nchaka passed away on Saturday night at around 11pm after a prolonged illness. He had been battling prostate cancer for some time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The ABC Secretary General, Thebe Mokoatle, confirmed Mr Nchaka&#8217;s death, describing him as a committed public servant, community leader and loyal party member whose passing has left a deep void within the party and the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601090501.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\u00a0Principal Secretary and prominent opposition All Basotho Convention (ABC) member, Malefetsane Nchaka, has died. Mr Nchaka passed away on Saturday night at around 11pm after a prolonged illness. He had been battling prostate cancer for some time. The ABC Secretary General, Thebe Mokoatle, confirmed Mr Nchaka&#8217;s death, describing him as a committed public servant, community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":220304,"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":[258,256,6868,4717,1407,46535,257,254],"class_list":["post-220303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dies","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-nchaka","tag-news","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\/220303","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=220303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}