{"id":237115,"date":"2026-06-22T18:05:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-opposition-leader-faces-treason-charge\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:05:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T16:05:54","slug":"lesotho-opposition-leader-faces-treason-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-opposition-leader-faces-treason-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Opposition Leader Faces Treason Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em> T\u0161epo Lipholo is accused of links to alleged military training camps on farms in South Africa <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>T\u0161epo Lipholo, leader of the Basotho Covenant Movement, is facing a charge of treason linking him to the recruitment of Basotho men aged 18 to 35 for military training on farms in South Africa.<\/li>\n<li>South African intelligence structures and police said they had found no evidence of military camps.<\/li>\n<li>According to the court papers, the purpose of the training was to prepare recruits to &#8220;forcefully reclaim&#8221;&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606220380.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>T\u0161epo Lipholo is accused of links to alleged military training camps on farms in South Africa T\u0161epo Lipholo, leader of the Basotho Covenant Movement, is facing a charge of treason linking him to the recruitment of Basotho men aged 18 to 35 for military training on farms in South Africa. South African intelligence structures and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237116,"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\/00681762:3d2d94de0d6c50be04d003b768e33206:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,5211,5080,7079,4717,1407,257,5675,254,5962],"class_list":["post-237115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-charge","tag-faces","tag-leader","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-south-africa-today","tag-treason"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681762:3d2d94de0d6c50be04d003b768e33206:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237115","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=237115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}