{"id":223524,"date":"2026-02-11T12:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-end-nepotism-in-lesothos-public-service-warns-law-group\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:35:06","slug":"lesotho-end-nepotism-in-lesothos-public-service-warns-law-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-end-nepotism-in-lesothos-public-service-warns-law-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: End Nepotism in Lesotho&#8217;s Public Service, Warns Law Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em> Section Two accuses the government of running a closed shop and not advertising positions as required by law <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Civil society group Section Two has accused the Lesotho government of unlawfully treating public appointments as political rewards, citing three recent appointments.<\/li>\n<li>The group said public posts must be advertised, open to a competitive process and awarded on merit.<\/li>\n<li>A government spokesperson said all appointments had been made within existing legal frameworks, with executive prerogative&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602110101.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>Section Two accuses the government of running a closed shop and not advertising positions as required by law Civil society group Section Two has accused the Lesotho government of unlawfully treating public appointments as political rewards, citing three recent appointments. The group said public posts must be advertised, open to a competitive process and awarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223525,"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":[258,256,5192,7077,4717,1407,9990,13610,257,5751,5188,254,6853],"class_list":["post-223524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-group","tag-law","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothos","tag-nepotism","tag-news","tag-public","tag-service","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns"],"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\/223524","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=223524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}