{"id":230922,"date":"2026-04-21T15:38:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/south-africa-president-and-lesotho-leaders-to-open-landmark-senqu-bridge\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:38:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:38:55","slug":"south-africa-president-and-lesotho-leaders-to-open-landmark-senqu-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/south-africa-president-and-lesotho-leaders-to-open-landmark-senqu-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: President and Lesotho Leaders to Open Landmark Senqu Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">President Cyril Ramaphosa will travel to Lesotho this week to join King Letsie III and Prime Minister Samuel Matekane for the official opening of the Senqu Bridge in Mokhotlong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Presidency said the event on Wednesday marks a major milestone under Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project and reflects the strong partnership between South Africa and Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The bridge replaces the existing crossing, which will be submerged when the Polihali Dam is impounded, and is expected to ensure&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604200849.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>President Cyril Ramaphosa will travel to Lesotho this week to join King Letsie III and Prime Minister Samuel Matekane for the official opening of the Senqu Bridge in Mokhotlong. The Presidency said the event on Wednesday marks a major milestone under Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project and reflects the strong partnership between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230923,"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":[258,256,11058,12583,4381,4717,1407,257,5983,2450,54216,5069,254],"class_list":["post-230922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bridge","tag-landmark","tag-leaders","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-open","tag-president","tag-senqu","tag-south","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\/230922","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=230922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}