{"id":242842,"date":"2026-09-01T08:45:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/south-africa-sa-company-sues-lesotho-tunnel-builder-for-m165-million\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:45:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:45:52","slug":"south-africa-sa-company-sues-lesotho-tunnel-builder-for-m165-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/south-africa-sa-company-sues-lesotho-tunnel-builder-for-m165-million\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: SA Company Sues Lesotho Tunnel Builder for M165-Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em> Esor says a signed letter created a binding contract. But the tunnel joint venture says there was no deal. <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>South African construction company Esor claims it is owed about M165-million for preparing to work on the Polihali Transfer Tunnel after receiving a letter confirming a contract.<\/li>\n<li>But the Kopano Ke Matla joint venture claims the parties had not agreed on all the terms and has refused to pay Esor.<\/li>\n<li>The case is before the Commercial Division of the Lesotho High Court.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">South African company&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609010022.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Esor says a signed letter created a binding contract. But the tunnel joint venture says there was no deal. South African construction company Esor claims it is owed about M165-million for preparing to work on the Polihali Transfer Tunnel after receiving a letter confirming a contract. But the Kopano Ke Matla joint venture claims the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242843,"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":[258,256,47695,7156,4717,1407,55323,257,5069,254,11600,24300],"class_list":["post-242842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-builder","tag-company","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-m165million","tag-news","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sues","tag-tunnel"],"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\/242842","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=242842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}