{"id":238294,"date":"2026-07-08T18:47:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-court-setback-for-lesotho-highlands-dam-compensation-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:47:43","slug":"lesotho-court-setback-for-lesotho-highlands-dam-compensation-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-court-setback-for-lesotho-highlands-dam-compensation-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Court Setback for Lesotho Highlands Dam Compensation Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em> Court rejects constitutional challenge, but thousands of villagers and businesses can still pursue claims through the High Court <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lesotho&#8217;s Constitutional Court has ruled that thousands of people seeking compensation over the Lesotho Highlands Water Project used the wrong legal process.<\/li>\n<li>The court did not decide whether affected communities are owed compensation, finding instead that those claims should be pursued under ordinary legislation, and not as a constitutional challenge.<\/li>\n<li>More than 3,000&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607080336.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 rejects constitutional challenge, but thousands of villagers and businesses can still pursue claims through the High Court Lesotho&#8217;s Constitutional Court has ruled that thousands of people seeking compensation over the Lesotho Highlands Water Project used the wrong legal process. The court did not decide whether affected communities are owed compensation, finding instead that those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,8117,18492,6185,7146,11327,4717,1407,257,8247,254],"class_list":["post-238294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-compensation","tag-court","tag-dam","tag-highlands","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-setback","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238294","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=238294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}