{"id":250063,"date":"2026-11-13T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-journalist-in-hiding-brings-constitutional-challenge\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T02:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T00:00:21","slug":"lesotho-journalist-in-hiding-brings-constitutional-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-journalist-in-hiding-brings-constitutional-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Journalist in Hiding Brings Constitutional Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em> The Constitutional Court has invited organisations to join a case brought by Kananelo Boloetse and Section Two challenging an amendment made without a referendum <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Journalist Kananelo Boloetse and the organisation, Section Two, are challenging the validity of Lesotho&#8217;s Tenth Constitutional Amendment, arguing that it required a referendum.<\/li>\n<li>The amendment introduced affirmative action provisions for marginalised groups and established a framework for public-interest litigation.<\/li>\n<li>National Assembly&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611120591.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>The Constitutional Court has invited organisations to join a case brought by Kananelo Boloetse and Section Two challenging an amendment made without a referendum Journalist Kananelo Boloetse and the organisation, Section Two, are challenging the validity of Lesotho&#8217;s Tenth Constitutional Amendment, arguing that it required a referendum. The amendment introduced affirmative action provisions for marginalised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":250064,"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":[258,256,6561,7485,9729,11750,7277,4717,1407,257,254],"class_list":["post-250063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brings","tag-challenge","tag-constitutional","tag-hiding","tag-journalist","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/250063","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=250063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}