{"id":38677,"date":"2024-03-09T19:53:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T19:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso"},"modified":"2024-03-09T20:12:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T20:12:40","slug":"fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso","title":{"rendered":"Fight to exhume Bishop Taaso"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>THE government wants the body of the late Anglican Church of Lesotho Bishop Adam Taaso exhumed and reburied in the village cemetery in Ts\u030cehlanyane, Leribe. However, his family is opposing the bid.<\/p>\n

The local government council for Ts\u030cehlanyane has approached the Northern Region High Court in Ts\u030cifa-li-Mali seeking an order forcing the family to exhume the bishop.<\/p>\n

The council argues that Bishop Taaso\u2019s family cemetery in which he was buried last month is not designated and therefore burying him there was contrary to the Public Health Order of 1970.<\/p>\n

The order says the Health Minister shall declare and notify in the Gazette proper places to be the sites of and to be used as cemeteries. \u201cIt shall be obligatory where such cemeteries exist to bury the dead in such cemeteries,\u201d the order says.<\/p>\n

The Taaso family, however, argues that the family cemetery has always been considered as designated. Advocate Taaso Taaso, the bishop\u2019s son, told thepost last night that both the village chief and the council failed to prove to him that the cemetery where they want him to bury his father has been designated under the 1970 Order.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs for my grandfather\u2019s big yard, part of which has been our family graveyard, is properly a lawful graveyard,\u201d Advocate Taaso said.<\/p>\n

He relies on the part of the order which says \u201call cemeteries existing at the time this Order comes into operation and such other cemeteries as may be authorised by the Minister, notice whereof shall be published in the Gazette, shall be deemed authorised cemeteries\u201d.<\/p>\n

Advocate Taaso said his grandfather\u2019s yard, the size of which is far over the football pitch, has been used as the family\u2019s cemetery since 1963, seven years before the order.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time that we are directed not to bury our dead there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also said other families have over the years been burying their loved ones in their yards but nothing has been done to stop them and they have not been ordered to exhume them.<\/p>\n

He said this was discrimination against the Taaso family. Advocate Taaso said it is sad that his father, who received much controversial hostility from several quarters in his life, \u201cis being maltreated in this way even in death\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to go there but this is how I see these things. I see them as an attack,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Lesotho<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. THE government wants the body of the late Anglican Church of Lesotho Bishop Adam Taaso exhumed and reburied in the village cemetery in Ts\u030cehlanyane, Leribe. However, his family is opposing the bid. The local government council for Ts\u030cehlanyane has approached the Northern Region High Court in Ts\u030cifa-li-Mali seeking an order forcing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":38676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[233,246,245],"class_list":["post-38677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"\nFight to exhume Bishop Taaso - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE government wants the body of the late Anglican Church of Lesotho Bishop Adam Taaso exhumed and reburied in the villa ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fight to exhume Bishop Taaso\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE government wants the body of the late Anglican Church of Lesotho Bishop Adam Taaso exhumed and reburied in the villa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-09T19:53:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-09T20:12:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/03\/sm_1710002510.859673.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Fight to exhume Bishop Taaso\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-09T19:53:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-03-09T20:12:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso\"},\"wordCount\":420,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/03\/sm_1710002510.859673.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Lesotho\",\"Lesotho\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"head lines\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso\",\"name\":\"Fight to exhume Bishop Taaso - Lesotho\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/03\/sm_1710002510.859673.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-09T19:53:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-03-09T20:12:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"THE government wants the body of the late Anglican Church of Lesotho Bishop Adam Taaso exhumed and reburied in the villa ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/03\/sm_1710002510.859673.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/03\/sm_1710002510.859673.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Fight to exhume Bishop Taaso\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Fight to exhume Bishop Taaso\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/\",\"name\":\"Lesotho\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Fight to exhume Bishop Taaso - Lesotho","description":"THE government wants the body of the late Anglican Church of Lesotho Bishop Adam Taaso exhumed and reburied in the villa ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Fight to exhume Bishop Taaso","og_description":"THE government wants the body of the late Anglican Church of Lesotho Bishop Adam Taaso exhumed and reburied in the villa ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso","og_site_name":"Lesotho","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2024-03-09T19:53:45+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-03-09T20:12:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/03\/sm_1710002510.859673.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Fight to exhume Bishop Taaso","datePublished":"2024-03-09T19:53:45+00:00","dateModified":"2024-03-09T20:12:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso"},"wordCount":420,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/03\/sm_1710002510.859673.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Lesotho","Lesotho"],"articleSection":["all news","community","head lines"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso","name":"Fight to exhume Bishop Taaso - Lesotho","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/03\/sm_1710002510.859673.jpg","datePublished":"2024-03-09T19:53:45+00:00","dateModified":"2024-03-09T20:12:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"THE government wants the body of the late Anglican Church of Lesotho Bishop Adam Taaso exhumed and reburied in the villa ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/03\/sm_1710002510.859673.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2024\/03\/sm_1710002510.859673.jpg","width":1280,"height":720,"caption":"Fight to exhume Bishop Taaso"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/fight-to-exhume-bishop-taaso#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Fight to exhume Bishop Taaso"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/","name":"Lesotho","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}