{"id":4850,"date":"2014-08-16T16:10:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T09:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4850"},"modified":"2014-08-16T16:10:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T09:10:34","slug":"atul-gupta-appointed-special-adviser-to-lesotho-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/atul-gupta-appointed-special-adviser-to-lesotho-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Atul Gupta &#8216;appointed special adviser to Lesotho PM&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atul Gupta\u2019s web of influence is set to grow, following his reported appointment as special adviser to Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane.<\/p>\n<p>Gupta is said to be one of three advisers who have received diplomatic passports, sparking an outcry from Thabane\u2019s political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>The three will allegedly help attract foreign direct investment for Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p>News outlets in Lesotho have reported the appointment and issuing of passports, along with the SABC online in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Gupta family confirmed there was a letter from the Lesotho government inviting Atul Gupta to become an economic investment envoy, with the aim of drawing investment into the kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Gupta had been out of the country for the past two and half months and was yet to respond to the invitation, spokesperson Gary Naidoo said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lesotho News\" href=\"http:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2014-08-14-atul-gupta-appointed-special-adviser-to-lesotho-pm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atul Gupta\u2019s web of influence is set to grow, following his reported appointment as special adviser to Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane. Gupta is said to be one of three advisers who have received diplomatic passports, sparking an outcry from Thabane\u2019s political opponents. The three will allegedly help attract foreign direct investment for Lesotho. News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,3597,3603,3598,3601,3602,4717,1407,3599,257,254,4693,3600],"class_list":["post-4850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atul-gupta","tag-economic-investment-envoy","tag-gupta","tag-gupta-family","tag-inviting-atul-gupta-to-become-an-economic-investment-envoy","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesotho-prime-minister-tom-thabane","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-special-adviser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4850\/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=4850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}