{"id":222906,"date":"2026-02-05T12:19:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-soldiers-arrested-for-selling-firearms-to-zama-zamas\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:19:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T10:19:58","slug":"lesotho-soldiers-arrested-for-selling-firearms-to-zama-zamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-soldiers-arrested-for-selling-firearms-to-zama-zamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Soldiers Arrested for Selling Firearms to Zama Zamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em> The two accused were arrested with guns they could not prove were in their possession lawfully <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Two Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) soldiers are expected to appear in court in connections with allegations that they are part of a syndicate of soldiers stealing military firearms to sell to illegal miners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">In a statement, the Lesotho Mounted Police Service said it is investigating reports that firearms were stolen from LDF armouries and sold to &#8220;makhomosha&#8221;, a local term for informal miners, also known&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602040301.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>The two accused were arrested with guns they could not prove were in their possession lawfully Two Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) soldiers are expected to appear in court in connections with allegations that they are part of a syndicate of soldiers stealing military firearms to sell to illegal miners. In a statement, the Lesotho Mounted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222907,"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":[258,256,4304,10476,4717,1407,257,11904,4401,254,52893,53583],"class_list":["post-222906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrested","tag-firearms","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-selling","tag-soldiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zama","tag-zamas"],"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\/222906","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=222906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}