{"id":3147,"date":"2021-09-10T16:38:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/step-up-lesotho-goes-to-the-wire"},"modified":"2021-09-10T16:38:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:38:23","slug":"step-up-lesotho-goes-to-the-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/step-up-lesotho-goes-to-the-wire","title":{"rendered":"Step Up Lesotho goes to the wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Step Up Lesotho music competition is almost over with only five contestants left to battle for the grand prize of a Polo Vivo, a record deal and a scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining contestants include, Sway code (ST6), Tholoana (ST10), Nthabiseng (ST6) Sensei Ranking (ST4) and Tamia (ST5) who are all desperate for votes to become the first Vodacom Step up Lesotho winner.<\/p>\n<p>To vote favourite contestants the public is requested to send the code of their favorite contestant to the following digits: 1. 1Loti\/R1.00 for One Vote to 52933.<\/p>\n<p>2. 5Maluti\/R5.00 for Five Votes to 52577.<\/p>\n<p>3. 10Maluti\/R10.00 for Ten Votes to 52777.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. 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