{"id":54384,"date":"2025-03-28T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T10:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/thotanyana-forms-political-party"},"modified":"2025-05-05T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T17:56:01","slug":"thotanyana-forms-political-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/thotanyana-forms-political-party","title":{"rendered":"THOTANYANA FORMS POLITICAL PARTY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Former Basotho Action Party (BAP) Secretary General, Mr. Lebohang Thotanyana has unveiled his newly formed and registered political party Transformation For Change (TFC).<\/p>\n<p>He was expelled from the BAP in December 2023 on allegations that he was failing to do his work as Secretary-General of the party and that he had his own group of followers within the party which caused divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Also, he was accused of engaging in a smear campaign against the BAP hence the decision to dismiss him.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Agency on Thursday that TFC plans to offer a different perspective and approach to solving the country\u2019s escalating problems saying unlike other political parties which only have slogans and themes, TFC has policies that they will work on seeing through.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Lesotho<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. Former Basotho Action Party (BAP) Secretary General, Mr. Lebohang Thotanyana has unveiled his newly formed and registered political party Transformation For Change (TFC). He was expelled from the BAP in December 2023 on allegations that he was failing to do his work as Secretary-General of the party and that he had his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":54383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-54384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","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>THOTANYANA FORMS POLITICAL PARTY - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Basotho Action Party (BAP) Secretary General, Mr. Lebohang Thotanyana has unveiled his newly formed and registere ...\" \/>\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\/thotanyana-forms-political-party\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"THOTANYANA FORMS POLITICAL PARTY\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Basotho Action Party (BAP) Secretary General, Mr. Lebohang Thotanyana has unveiled his newly formed and registere ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/thotanyana-forms-political-party\" \/>\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=\"2025-03-28T10:05:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-05T17:56:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/03\/sm_1743141510.633174.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"722\" \/>\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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/thotanyana-forms-political-party#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/thotanyana-forms-political-party\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"THOTANYANA FORMS POLITICAL PARTY\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-28T10:05:22+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-05T17:56:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/thotanyana-forms-political-party\"},\"wordCount\":140,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/thotanyana-forms-political-party#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/03\/sm_1743141510.633174.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Lesotho\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/thotanyana-forms-political-party#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/thotanyana-forms-political-party\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/thotanyana-forms-political-party\",\"name\":\"THOTANYANA FORMS POLITICAL PARTY - 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