{"id":30682,"date":"2023-06-27T07:42:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T07:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/calls-for-south-africa-to-make-lesotho-the-10th-province-2"},"modified":"2023-06-27T08:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T08:11:20","slug":"calls-for-south-africa-to-make-lesotho-the-10th-province-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/calls-for-south-africa-to-make-lesotho-the-10th-province-2","title":{"rendered":"Calls for South Africa to make Lesotho the 10th Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Some Lesotho nationals living in Rustenburg in the North West are calling on the government of South Africa and Lesotho to scrap the borders separating the two countries, saying Lesotho should be made South Africa&#8217;s tenth province.<br \/>\nThey say the borders that separate African countries are practices initiated by the apartheid regime with the aim of separating and oppressing Africans. 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