{"id":5278,"date":"2014-09-18T16:37:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T09:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2014-09-18T16:37:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T09:37:43","slug":"ramaphosa-to-mediate-in-lesotho-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/ramaphosa-to-mediate-in-lesotho-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa to mediate in Lesotho crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will be in Lesotho on Thursday to mediate in the mountain Kingdom&#8217;s political and security crises. Ramaphosa has been appointed as facilitator by SADC.<\/p>\n<p>An emergency meeting was held this week after coalition leaders could not agree on a date to reopen Parliament in Maseru.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa is taking over from President Jacob Zuma who has until now led the mediation. Zuma has visited Maseru twice already and met with the leaders twice in Pretoria&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lesotho News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/news\/a\/faaf6400458359318c8aafc7c599c9eb\/Ramaphosa-to-mediate-in-Lesotho-crisis\" 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>Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will be in Lesotho on Thursday to mediate in the mountain Kingdom&#8217;s political and security crises. Ramaphosa has been appointed as facilitator by SADC. An emergency meeting was held this week after coalition leaders could not agree on a date to reopen Parliament in Maseru. Ramaphosa is taking over from President [&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":[258,256,4105,4103,4106,4717,1407,1410,4104,257,4107,1412,254,4693,4074],"class_list":["post-5278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appointed-as-facilitator-by-sadc","tag-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-facilitator","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-maseru","tag-mediate-in-the-mountain-kingdom","tag-news","tag-parliament-in-maseru","tag-sadc","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zuma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278","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=5278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/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=5278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}