{"id":231232,"date":"2026-04-24T03:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/south-africa-lesotho-highlands-water-project-phase-ii-strengthens-regional-cooperation-mahlobo\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:45:12","slug":"south-africa-lesotho-highlands-water-project-phase-ii-strengthens-regional-cooperation-mahlobo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/south-africa-lesotho-highlands-water-project-phase-ii-strengthens-regional-cooperation-mahlobo\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phase II Strengthens Regional Cooperation &#8211; Mahlobo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\"><em><em>Mokhotlong, Lesotho<\/em><\/em> &#8211; Strong regional cooperation between South Africa and Lesotho has emerged as a defining feature of Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, with government emphasising partnership as key to unlocking long-term water and economic security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">This comes as Minister of Water and Sanitation Pemmy Majodina, along with Deputy Minister David Mahlobo, conducted an oversight visit to the Polihali project site following the launch of the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) in Polihali, in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604220043.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>Mokhotlong, Lesotho &#8211; Strong regional cooperation between South Africa and Lesotho has emerged as a defining feature of Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, with government emphasising partnership as key to unlocking long-term water and economic security. This comes as Minister of Water and Sanitation Pemmy Majodina, along with Deputy Minister David Mahlobo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231233,"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":[258,256,6454,11327,4717,1407,47014,257,7136,6504,4268,5069,254,11921,6722],"class_list":["post-231232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cooperation","tag-highlands","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-mahlobo","tag-news","tag-phase","tag-project","tag-regional","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthens","tag-water"],"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\/231232","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=231232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}