{"id":221995,"date":"2026-01-26T23:57:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-three-accused-of-stealing-from-lesotho-organisation-for-the-blind\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:57:51","slug":"lesotho-three-accused-of-stealing-from-lesotho-organisation-for-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-three-accused-of-stealing-from-lesotho-organisation-for-the-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Three Accused of Stealing From Lesotho Organisation for the Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em> Trio appeared in court on Friday <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Three former senior officials of an NGO in Lesotho have been charged with defrauding the organisation of nearly M1-million (M1 = R1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The trio is accused of siphoning funds from the Lesotho National League of Visually Impaired Persons (LNLVIP). They appeared in the Maseru Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The accused are Cecilia Rahlao, the former accountant; Mabataung Khetsi, the former secretary-general; and Tlalane Lebusa, the former treasurer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601260261.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>Trio appeared in court on Friday Three former senior officials of an NGO in Lesotho have been charged with defrauding the organisation of nearly M1-million (M1 = R1). The trio is accused of siphoning funds from the Lesotho National League of Visually Impaired Persons (LNLVIP). They appeared in the Maseru Magistrate&#8217;s Court on Friday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":221996,"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":[7083,258,256,11102,4717,1407,257,12071,254,10184],"class_list":["post-221995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blind","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-organisation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stealing"],"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\/221995","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=221995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}