{"id":241352,"date":"2022-10-28T09:18:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T07:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/president-ramaphosa-to-attend-lesotho-pm-inauguration\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T09:18:32","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T07:18:32","slug":"president-ramaphosa-to-attend-lesotho-pm-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/president-ramaphosa-to-attend-lesotho-pm-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ramaphosa to attend Lesotho PM inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202210\/lesotho1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to attend the inauguration of newly elected Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Lesotho, Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane, in Maseru this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Matekane was elected following elections that took place in the land locked country in early October where he won 56 of 79 constituencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Ramaphosa is attending at the invitation of His Majesty King Letsie III.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Ramaphosa\u2019s attendance is an expression of South Africa\u2019s continued support for the Basotho and of the firm bonds and friendship between the two countries,\u201d the Presidency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency lauded the formal diplomatic relations between the two countries which span back some 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelations between the two countries are based on shared language, history, and culture. Full diplomatic relations between the two countries were established in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Kingdom of Lesotho provided shelter and support to South African liberation cadres in their fight against apartheid,\u201d the statement said. \u2013 <strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to attend the inauguration of newly elected Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Lesotho, Samuel Ntsokoane Matekane, in Maseru this morning. Matekane was elected following elections that took place in the land locked country in early October where he won 56 of 79 constituencies. \u201cPresident Ramaphosa is attending at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-241352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/president-ramaphosa-to-attend-lesotho-pm-inauguration.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}