{"id":395989,"date":"2017-06-16T10:13:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T10:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/16\/lesotho-prime-minister-thomas-thabanes-wife-shot-dead\/"},"modified":"2017-06-16T10:13:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T10:13:26","slug":"lesotho-prime-minister-thomas-thabanes-wife-shot-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/16\/lesotho-prime-minister-thomas-thabanes-wife-shot-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane\u2019s wife shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The estranged wife of incoming Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has been shot dead two days before his inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>Lipolelo Thabane, 58, was travelling home with a friend when both women were shot by an unknown assailant, the police say.<\/p>\n<p>The police add the motive is unknown and an investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>The couple had been living separately since 2012 and filed for divorce which hasn\u2019t been granted yet.<\/p>\n<p>BBC southern Africa correspondent Karen Allen reports that neighbours claim there had been an incident earlier in the week when a group of unidentified men were spotted hammering on the First Lady\u2019s door.<\/p>\n<p>She won a high court battle against her husband to secure the privileges of a First Lady, instead of Mr Thabane\u2019s youngest wife, Liabiloe, reports the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Thabane is now living with a third wife.<\/p>\n<p>Samonyane Ntsekele, the secretary general of Mr Thabane\u2019s All Basotho Convention party, told AFP that the prime minister was devastated by the shooting.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-with-caption\">\n<div class=\"player-with-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-placeholder player-with-placeholder__image narrative-video-placeholder\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/p055zt63.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEveryone is traumatised by these developments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The election took place earlier this month and was the third election in three years.<\/p>\n<p>There is a bitter power-struggle in the country and Mr Thabane still has enemies in the military, our correspondent adds.<\/p>\n<p>His inauguration is still expected to take place on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The estranged wife of incoming Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has been shot dead two days before his inauguration. Lipolelo Thabane, 58, was travelling home with a friend when both women were shot by an unknown assailant, the police say. The police add the motive is unknown and an investigation is continuing. The couple had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane\u2019s wife shot dead - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\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.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/16\/lesotho-prime-minister-thomas-thabanes-wife-shot-dead\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane\u2019s wife shot dead - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The estranged wife of incoming Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has been shot dead two days before his inauguration. 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