{"id":235336,"date":"2026-06-04T17:16:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-the-long-road-to-the-market-for-lesothos-wool-farmers\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T17:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:16:55","slug":"lesotho-the-long-road-to-the-market-for-lesothos-wool-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-the-long-road-to-the-market-for-lesothos-wool-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: The Long Road to the Market for Lesotho&#8217;s Wool Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em> From the highlands of Lesotho, quality wool is sold in Gqeberha to the world <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">On a cold pasture in Mokhotlong in Lesotho&#8217;s high mountains, sheep farmer Khotsang Moshoeshoe stands on a carefully managed field of lucerne and grass. The 7.2-acre pasture is part of an effort to improve the quality of the wool he produces for international markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Moshoeshoe keeps about 160 sheep, including 112 ewes, and specialises in producing superfine wool, a high-value fibre sought after on the global market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align:...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606040091.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>From the highlands of Lesotho, quality wool is sold in Gqeberha to the world On a cold pasture in Mokhotlong in Lesotho&#8217;s high mountains, sheep farmer Khotsang Moshoeshoe stands on a carefully managed field of lucerne and grass. The 7.2-acre pasture is part of an effort to improve the quality of the wool he produces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235337,"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":[258,256,3030,4717,1407,9990,9190,4356,257,7414,254,22125],"class_list":["post-235336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-farmers","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothos","tag-long","tag-market","tag-news","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wool"],"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\/235336","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=235336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}