{"id":239140,"date":"2026-07-20T19:19:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/south-africa-lesothos-only-snake-park-one-mans-30-year-battle-against-witchcraft-accusations-and-government-dithering\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:19:56","slug":"south-africa-lesothos-only-snake-park-one-mans-30-year-battle-against-witchcraft-accusations-and-government-dithering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/south-africa-lesothos-only-snake-park-one-mans-30-year-battle-against-witchcraft-accusations-and-government-dithering\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Lesotho&#8217;s Only Snake Park &#8211; One Man&#8217;s 30-Year Battle Against Witchcraft Accusations and Government Dithering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em> Nkhooa Molahlehi has built a snake conservation park under a sandstone cliff in Qacha&#8217;s Nek <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nkhooa Molahlehi grew up killing snakes as a child but later turned to saving them, even though this led to rejection and being accused of witchcraft.<\/li>\n<li>After first applying to secure land in 2006, this month, he finally received a lease for the 2.4-hectare park, removing a major obstacle to attract investment.<\/li>\n<li>But the park that once housed 121 snakes now holds just 14, and Molahlehi still manages almost&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607200106.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>Nkhooa Molahlehi has built a snake conservation park under a sandstone cliff in Qacha&#8217;s Nek Nkhooa Molahlehi grew up killing snakes as a child but later turned to saving them, even though this led to rejection and being accused of witchcraft. After first applying to secure land in 2006, this month, he finally received a [&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":[24314,6562,258,256,7887,54892,6427,1407,9990,10308,257,7191,11053,5069,254,4454],"class_list":["post-239140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-30year","tag-accusations","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battle","tag-dithering","tag-government","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothos","tag-mans","tag-news","tag-park","tag-snake","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-witchcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239140","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=239140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239140\/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=239140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}