{"id":64281,"date":"2025-11-17T18:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/mps-to-support-roof-of-africa-maletsunyane-festival"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:57:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:57:59","slug":"mps-to-support-roof-of-africa-maletsunyane-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/mps-to-support-roof-of-africa-maletsunyane-festival","title":{"rendered":"MPs TO SUPPORT ROOF OF AFRICA, MALETSUNYANE FESTIVAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Members of Parliament (MPs) have been urged to support and ensure the safety of tourists during the upcoming Roof of Africa and Maletsunyane Braai festival to be held in the country, starting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The call was made by the Minister of Tourism, Sports and Culture Mr. Motlatsi Maqelepo in the National Assembly on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Maqelepo said while the country collects a significant amount of money in revenue from these events, hospitality entities including some members of the public also benefit.<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that the country collected about M5 Million in revenue during last year\u2019s Roof of Africa which saw 1365 tourists, saying over M10 Million in revenue was collected from Maletsunyane Braai festival which saw 4367 tourists.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted that this year, 400 riders from 15 countries will participate in Roof of Africa and will attract over 1900 tourists while Maletsunyane Braai festival is expected to attract over 5000 tourists.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that other events, which include Lesotho Tourism Festival (LETOFE) , Moshoeshoe Walk and Afriski amongst others also contribute significantly towards Lesotho\u2019s revenue..<\/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. Members of Parliament (MPs) have been urged to support and ensure the safety of tourists during the upcoming Roof of Africa and Maletsunyane Braai festival to be held in the country, starting on Wednesday. The call was made by the Minister of Tourism, Sports and Culture Mr. Motlatsi Maqelepo in the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":64280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[245],"class_list":["post-64281","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>MPs TO SUPPORT ROOF OF AFRICA, MALETSUNYANE FESTIVAL - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Members of Parliament (MPs) have been urged to support and ensure the safety of tourists during the upcoming Roof of Afr ...\" \/>\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\/mps-to-support-roof-of-africa-maletsunyane-festival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"MPs TO SUPPORT ROOF OF AFRICA, MALETSUNYANE FESTIVAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Members of Parliament (MPs) have been urged to support and ensure the safety of tourists during the upcoming Roof of Afr ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/mps-to-support-roof-of-africa-maletsunyane-festival\" \/>\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=\"2025-11-17T18:10:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-17T18:57:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/11\/sm_1763393018.035739.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"807\" \/>\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\/mps-to-support-roof-of-africa-maletsunyane-festival#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/mps-to-support-roof-of-africa-maletsunyane-festival\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"MPs TO SUPPORT ROOF OF AFRICA, MALETSUNYANE FESTIVAL\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-17T18:10:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-17T18:57:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/mps-to-support-roof-of-africa-maletsunyane-festival\"},\"wordCount\":191,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/mps-to-support-roof-of-africa-maletsunyane-festival#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2025\/11\/sm_1763393018.035739.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\/mps-to-support-roof-of-africa-maletsunyane-festival#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/mps-to-support-roof-of-africa-maletsunyane-festival\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/mps-to-support-roof-of-africa-maletsunyane-festival\",\"name\":\"MPs TO SUPPORT ROOF OF AFRICA, MALETSUNYANE FESTIVAL - 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