{"id":231354,"date":"2026-04-25T03:47:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/south-africa-and-lesotho-agree-that-ids-will-be-enough-to-cross-the-border\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T03:47:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:47:05","slug":"south-africa-and-lesotho-agree-that-ids-will-be-enough-to-cross-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/south-africa-and-lesotho-agree-that-ids-will-be-enough-to-cross-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa and Lesotho Agree That IDs Will Be Enough to Cross the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\"><strong>Improvement on 2026-04-22 16:56<\/strong><br \/><strong>If the original article was only partially read, readers may have been left with the impression that IDs could already be used to cross the border. The text of the article was clear that this was to be implemented in the future. To avoid confusion though, we&#8217;ve updated our headline and the first bullet point.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em> Basotho who have been barred from South Africa for overstaying will be granted amnesty <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>South Africa and Lesotho have agreed that citizens will only need&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604220039.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>Improvement on 2026-04-22 16:56If the original article was only partially read, readers may have been left with the impression that IDs could already be used to cross the border. The text of the article was clear that this was to be implemented in the future. To avoid confusion though, we&#8217;ve updated our headline and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680618:a5b63bf72b1b59921552778cc2798c1f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,8006,1900,8816,25398,4717,1407,257,5069,254],"class_list":["post-231354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agree","tag-border","tag-cross","tag-ids","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680618:a5b63bf72b1b59921552778cc2798c1f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231354","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=231354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}