{"id":222126,"date":"2026-01-28T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesothos-anti-corruption-paradox-empowered-but-undermined\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:00:49","slug":"lesothos-anti-corruption-paradox-empowered-but-undermined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesothos-anti-corruption-paradox-empowered-but-undermined\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho&#8217;s Anti-Corruption Paradox &#8211; Empowered but Undermined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"119\">Over the past decade, Lesotho&#8217;s political landscape has been marked by repeated leadership turnover and fragile coalition governments, which have steadily eroded public trust. Power oscillated between Pakalitha Mosisili&#8211;first as leader of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) and later the Democratic Congress (DC)&#8211;and Tom Thabane of the All-Basotho Convention (ABC), itself an offshoot of the LCD. Thabane&#8217;s first term (2012-15) ended abruptly after his deputy, Mothejoa Metsing, who faced <a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601280006.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>Over the past decade, Lesotho&#8217;s political landscape has been marked by repeated leadership turnover and fragile coalition governments, which have steadily eroded public trust. Power oscillated between Pakalitha Mosisili&#8211;first as leader of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) and later the Democratic Congress (DC)&#8211;and Tom Thabane of the All-Basotho Convention (ABC), itself an offshoot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222127,"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":[258,256,10365,16264,1407,9990,257,9110,254,12680],"class_list":["post-222126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anticorruption","tag-empowered","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothos","tag-news","tag-paradox","tag-south-africa-today","tag-undermined"],"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\/222126","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=222126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}