{"id":237504,"date":"2026-06-26T18:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-seeks-compensation-and-economic-support-from-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:14:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:14:57","slug":"lesotho-seeks-compensation-and-economic-support-from-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-seeks-compensation-and-economic-support-from-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Seeks Compensation and Economic Support From South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em> Foreign affairs minister Limpho Tau lists land dispossession, migrant labour and apartheid-era raids as historical injustices <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lesotho&#8217;s foreign affairs minister says South Africa has a moral obligation to help address poverty and the lack of economic growth in Lesotho.<\/li>\n<li>Minister Limpho Tau told the South African government that land dispossession, migrant labour and apartheid-era military raids had contributed to Lesotho&#8217;s economic hardship.<\/li>\n<li>Tau also raised concerns and sought assurances from&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606260293.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>Foreign affairs minister Limpho Tau lists land dispossession, migrant labour and apartheid-era raids as historical injustices Lesotho&#8217;s foreign affairs minister says South Africa has a moral obligation to help address poverty and the lack of economic growth in Lesotho. Minister Limpho Tau told the South African government that land dispossession, migrant labour and apartheid-era military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237505,"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":[258,256,18492,3576,4717,1407,257,8111,5069,254,6096],"class_list":["post-237504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-compensation","tag-economic","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-seeks","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support"],"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\/237504","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=237504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}