{"id":61866,"date":"2025-09-19T08:44:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T08:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/minister-tau-sets-record-straight"},"modified":"2025-09-19T09:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:04:41","slug":"minister-tau-sets-record-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/minister-tau-sets-record-straight","title":{"rendered":"MINISTER TAU SETS RECORD STRAIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, Mr. Limpho Tau has refuted allegations that the purchase of some grains by the Disaster Management Authority (DMA) has ceased as it has already received enough.<\/p>\n<p>This he said in the National Assembly on Thursday after Qacha\u2019s Nek Member of Parliament Mr. Mohlahlobi Busa stood on point of order asking the Minister to clarify some issues in the statement he delivered earlier this week, regarding the purchase of grains.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Tau said the above is not true as the purchase of grains will commence on Monday next week until Friday, clarifying that DMA does not have enough money to buy all grains but will ensure all farmers have an opportunity to sell their grains based on crop forecast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDMA is not a farmers market but buys grains based on the Lesotho Vulnerability Assessment Committee ( LVAC) study,\u201d he clarified, stressing that production has increased in recent years unlike in 2023 when DMA bought great quantities as production was low.<\/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. The Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, Mr. Limpho Tau has refuted allegations that the purchase of some grains by the Disaster Management Authority (DMA) has ceased as it has already received enough. This he said in the National Assembly on Thursday after Qacha\u2019s Nek Member of Parliament Mr. Mohlahlobi Busa stood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":61865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-61866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","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>MINISTER TAU SETS RECORD STRAIGHT - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, Mr. Limpho Tau has refuted allegations that the purchase of some grains by ...\" \/>\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\/minister-tau-sets-record-straight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MINISTER TAU SETS RECORD STRAIGHT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, Mr. Limpho Tau has refuted allegations that the purchase of some grains by ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/minister-tau-sets-record-straight\" \/>\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=\"2025-09-19T08:44:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-19T09:04:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/09\/sm_1758256409.547097.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"398\" \/>\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\/minister-tau-sets-record-straight#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/minister-tau-sets-record-straight\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"MINISTER TAU SETS RECORD STRAIGHT\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-19T08:44:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-19T09:04:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/minister-tau-sets-record-straight\"},\"wordCount\":183,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/minister-tau-sets-record-straight#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/09\/sm_1758256409.547097.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Lesotho\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/minister-tau-sets-record-straight#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/minister-tau-sets-record-straight\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/minister-tau-sets-record-straight\",\"name\":\"MINISTER TAU SETS RECORD STRAIGHT - 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