{"id":1237315,"date":"2022-10-28T13:41:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T13:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/28\/matekane-takes-oath-of-office-as-new-lesotho-prime-minister\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T13:41:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T13:41:17","slug":"matekane-takes-oath-of-office-as-new-lesotho-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/28\/matekane-takes-oath-of-office-as-new-lesotho-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Matekane takes oath of office as new Lesotho prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_108\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-prod.iol.co.za\/16x9\/800?source=https:\/\/xlibris.public.prod.oc.inl.infomaker.io:8443\/opencontent\/objects\/8401a0df-227a-5a32-9b47-9eefbc620d37&amp;operation=CROP&amp;offset=0x0&amp;resize=1280x720\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Matekane was sworn-in by Chief Justice Sakoane Sakoane to wild cheers from thousands of supporters.<\/p>\n<p>He pledged to introduce a raft of measures to \u201cmake Lesotho great again\u201d by attracting investment and replenishing the government\u2019s coffers, which are believed to be almost dry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government of Lesotho vows that it will be open to foreign direct investment,\u201d the new premier said.<\/p>\n<p>The diamond magnate was appointed prime minister after his Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) won the most seats in general elections held on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>The RFP, however, fell short of securing an absolute majority in the country\u2019s 120-member parliament and had to form a coalition government with two opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p>The swearing in ceremony was witnessed by Lesotho\u2019s King Letsie III and several international leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Others who attended the ceremony were Botswana\u2019s President Mokgweetsi Masisi, President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, Zambia\u2019s President Hichilema Hakainde and Commonwealth secretary general Patricia Scotland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matekane was sworn-in by Chief Justice Sakoane Sakoane to wild cheers from thousands of supporters. He pledged to introduce a raft of measures to \u201cmake Lesotho great again\u201d by attracting investment and replenishing the government\u2019s coffers, which are believed to be almost dry. \u201cThe government of Lesotho vows that it will be open to foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}