{"id":237300,"date":"2026-06-24T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dispute-stalls-closure-of-hazardous-dumpsite-in-maseru\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:10:09","slug":"lesotho-dispute-stalls-closure-of-hazardous-dumpsite-in-maseru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-dispute-stalls-closure-of-hazardous-dumpsite-in-maseru\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Dispute Stalls Closure of Hazardous Dumpsite in Maseru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em> Court ordered shut down of the T\u0161osane dumpsite delayed after council cancels M27.3-million contract <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A dispute between the Maseru City Council and its consultant has halted a project to close the T\u0161osane dumpsite and move waste disposal to T\u0161oeneng.<\/li>\n<li>Ha T\u0161osane residents, who have complained for years about pollution, fires and health risks, won a High Court order in February requiring the site to be closed and rehabilitated.<\/li>\n<li>The council has cancelled the M27.3-million contract, citing&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606240219.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>Court ordered shut down of the T\u0161osane dumpsite delayed after council cancels M27.3-million contract A dispute between the Maseru City Council and its consultant has halted a project to close the T\u0161osane dumpsite and move waste disposal to T\u0161oeneng. Ha T\u0161osane residents, who have complained for years about pollution, fires and health risks, won a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237301,"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\/00280885:9780a50c9cc8998dab8fc3a5bdf7abd7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,5061,9424,35550,31364,4717,1407,1410,257,254,11885],"class_list":["post-237300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-closure","tag-dispute","tag-dumpsite","tag-hazardous","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-maseru","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stalls"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00280885:9780a50c9cc8998dab8fc3a5bdf7abd7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237300","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=237300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}