{"id":30970,"date":"2026-04-07T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30970"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:29:29","slug":"lesotho-pushes-for-compensation-talks-with-sa-on-water-deal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/lesotho-pushes-for-compensation-talks-with-sa-on-water-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho pushes for compensation talks with SA on water deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-hidden=\"true\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">South Africa (SA) relies on Lesotho for approximately 60% of the water demand in the Gauteng Province.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The country&#8217;s industrial and economic hub depends on Lesotho.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The water is supplied through the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">However, now Lesotho seeks to open talks with SA over the compensation for this water-sharing deal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This is viewed as the largest water transfer scheme in Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The mountainous Kingdom says the deal that was formulated in 1986, no longer reflects modern economic conditions. <\/span><span style=\"color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base); background-color: var(--global--color-background);\">The accord is set to expire in 2044.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21206,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-30970","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SA relies on Lesotho for approximately 60% of water","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30971,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30970\/revisions\/30971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}