{"id":35166,"date":"2017-06-15T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/lesotho-prime-minister-thomas-thabane-s-wife-shot\/"},"modified":"2017-06-15T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T15:00:25","slug":"lesotho-prime-minister-thomas-thabane-s-wife-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/lesotho-prime-minister-thomas-thabane-s-wife-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane&#8217;s wife shot dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{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.<br \/>\nThe couple had been living separately since 2012 and filed for divorce which hasn&#8217;t 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&#8217;s 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&#8217;s youngest wife, Liabiloe, reports the AFP news agency.<br \/>\nMr Thabane is now living with a third wife.<\/p>\n<p>Samonyane Ntsekele, the secretary general of Mr Thabane&#8217;s All Basotho Convention party, told AFP that the prime minister was devastated by the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone is traumatised by these developments,&#8221; 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<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20819 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_96501379_lilopelo.jpg\" alt=\"Lipolelo Thabane was going through a prolonged divorce\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\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":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35166"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35166"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}