{"id":230796,"date":"2026-04-20T15:36:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-access-to-justice-most-basotho-doubt-they-could-afford-to-take-their-cases-to-court\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:36:47","slug":"lesotho-access-to-justice-most-basotho-doubt-they-could-afford-to-take-their-cases-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-access-to-justice-most-basotho-doubt-they-could-afford-to-take-their-cases-to-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Access to Justice? Most Basotho Doubt They Could Afford to Take Their Cases to Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Fewer than half of citizens are confident that ordinary people can obtain justice in the legal system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fewer than half (48%) of Basotho say they feel &#8220;somewhat confident&#8221; or &#8220;very confident&#8221; that ordinary people can obtain justice in the courts.<\/li>\n<li>If they had a case that needed to go to court, a majority (56%) of citizens say they think it would be resolved fairly, but only about one-third say they could afford to take the case to court (33%) and obtain the necessary legal support&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604200097.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>Fewer than half of citizens are confident that ordinary people can obtain justice in the legal system. Key findings Fewer than half (48%) of Basotho say they feel &#8220;somewhat confident&#8221; or &#8220;very confident&#8221; that ordinary people can obtain justice in the courts. If they had a case that needed to go to court, a majority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230797,"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":[6450,10271,258,256,18241,10498,6185,7676,6852,4717,1407,257,254],"class_list":["post-230796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-access","tag-afford","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-basotho","tag-cases","tag-court","tag-doubt","tag-justice","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","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\/230796","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=230796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}