{"id":221159,"date":"2026-01-20T11:43:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-village-with-solar-farm-has-no-power\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:43:49","slug":"lesotho-village-with-solar-farm-has-no-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-village-with-solar-farm-has-no-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Village With Solar Farm Has No Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em> Villagers say they gave up grazing land for solar panels in 2022, but they have not seen any reward <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maphiring village in Mokhotlong district gave up grazing land in 2022 to allow OnePower Lesotho to install a solar farm and offices.<\/li>\n<li>But the villagers remain without electricity while the company generates power for neighbouring villages.<\/li>\n<li>OnePower says the situation is &#8220;purely due to a scheduling issue&#8221; and is committed to providing the village with power &#8220;in due course&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Seeing a solar farm&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601200068.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>Villagers say they gave up grazing land for solar panels in 2022, but they have not seen any reward Maphiring village in Mokhotlong district gave up grazing land in 2022 to allow OnePower Lesotho to install a solar farm and offices. But the villagers remain without electricity while the company generates power for neighbouring villages. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":221160,"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":[258,256,10402,4717,1407,257,7047,4631,254,10217],"class_list":["post-221159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-farm","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-power","tag-solar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-village"],"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\/221159","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=221159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}