{"id":231786,"date":"2026-04-29T15:58:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-starts-process-of-amnesty-for-nationals-banned-by-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T15:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:58:29","slug":"lesotho-starts-process-of-amnesty-for-nationals-banned-by-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-starts-process-of-amnesty-for-nationals-banned-by-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Starts Process of Amnesty for Nationals Banned By South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em> Lists to be sent to SA for approval <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lesotho has started the process of amnesty for Basotho who overstayed in South Africa.<\/li>\n<li>The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a public notice calling on Basotho who overstayed in South Africa but who have not committed criminal offences, to report to the ministry&#8217;s immigration office in Maseru for registration.<\/li>\n<li>The lists will be sent to Pretoria where South African authorities will verify the names and clear qualifying people.<\/li>\n<li>The amnesty process is among&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604290226.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>Lists to be sent to SA for approval Lesotho has started the process of amnesty for Basotho who overstayed in South Africa. The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a public notice calling on Basotho who overstayed in South Africa but who have not committed criminal offences, to report to the ministry&#8217;s immigration office in Maseru [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231787,"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":[258,256,3023,9363,4717,1407,16316,257,5755,5069,254,8899],"class_list":["post-231786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amnesty","tag-banned","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-nationals","tag-news","tag-process","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starts"],"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\/231786","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=231786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}