{"id":229658,"date":"2026-04-06T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-life-in-lesothos-historic-kome-caves\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:34:00","slug":"lesotho-life-in-lesothos-historic-kome-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-life-in-lesothos-historic-kome-caves\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Life in Lesotho&#8217;s Historic Kome Caves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em> The dwellings were occupied in the early 1800s by families fleeing the Lifaqane wars <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The historic Kome Caves, located in the district of Berea, 25km east of Teyateyaneng town, were occupied in the early 1800s by families fleeing the Lifaqane wars.<\/li>\n<li>The caves are now a tourist attraction managed by the local Ha Kome villagers in partnership with the Lesotho Tourism Development Corporation.<\/li>\n<li>But for the last resident living there, Ntefane Ntefane, it is still home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Ntefane Ntefane lives high in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604060132.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 dwellings were occupied in the early 1800s by families fleeing the Lifaqane wars The historic Kome Caves, located in the district of Berea, 25km east of Teyateyaneng town, were occupied in the early 1800s by families fleeing the Lifaqane wars. The caves are now a tourist attraction managed by the local Ha Kome villagers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229659,"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":[258,256,33788,13203,54103,4717,1407,9990,6448,257,254],"class_list":["post-229658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caves","tag-historic","tag-kome","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothos","tag-life","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/229658","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=229658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}