{"id":26340,"date":"2023-03-16T08:31:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T08:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/mapesela-booted-out-of-cabinet"},"modified":"2023-03-16T09:05:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T09:05:33","slug":"mapesela-booted-out-of-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/mapesela-booted-out-of-cabinet","title":{"rendered":"Mapesela booted out of cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Firebrand Agriculture Tefo Mapesela has been fired today. A statement released by the Office of Prime Minister Dr Moeketsi Majoro this evening announced Mapesela\u2019s release from cabinet duty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Office of the Prime Minister wishes to inform the general public that His Majesty King Letsie III has accepted the advice of The Right Hon the Prime Minister, Dr Moeketsi Majoro, MP to release from office, the Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Hon Tefo Mapesela, MP. This is effective from Wednesday 14th April 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. Firebrand Agriculture Tefo Mapesela has been fired today. A statement released by the Office of Prime Minister Dr Moeketsi Majoro this evening announced Mapesela\u2019s release from cabinet duty. \u201cThe Office of the Prime Minister wishes to inform the general public that His Majesty King Letsie III has accepted the advice of The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":26338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,246,326,245],"class_list":["post-26340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-food","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mapesela booted out of cabinet - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Firebrand Agriculture Tefo Mapesela has been fired today. 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