{"id":68470,"date":"2022-10-28T11:43:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T09:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-attends-new-lesotho-prime-ministers-inauguration"},"modified":"2022-10-28T14:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T12:02:56","slug":"chamisa-attends-new-lesotho-prime-ministers-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chamisa-attends-new-lesotho-prime-ministers-inauguration","title":{"rendered":"Chamisa Attends New Lesotho Prime Minister\u2019s Inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>The opposition Citizens\u2019 Coalition for Change (CCC)\u2019s \u201cChange Champion in Chief\u201d Nelson Chamisa is in, Maseru, Lesotho where he is attending the inauguration of the country\u2019s new Prime Minister Sam Matekane.<\/p>\n<p>Chamisa said he was honoured to be invited to the event, describing the Matekane\u2019s takeover of the reigns in the mountainous kingdom as a smooth democratic transition. He tweeted:<\/p>\n<p>IN LESOTHO&#8230; ATTENDING THE INAUGURATION at SETSOTSO stadium, MASERU. So honoured to be invited to witness yet another smooth democratic transition in Africa. Africa is rising. The future is exciting. Zimbabwe get ready!<\/p>\n<p>Matekane (64) launched the Revolution for Prosperity (RFP) on 22 March 2022 and defeated the All Basotho Convention (ABC) in elections held on 07 October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Matekane\u2019s RFP has formed a coalition government with the Alliance of Democrats and the Movement for Economic Change after it didn\u2019t get an outright majority in the recent polls.<\/p>\n<p>The RFP won 56 out of 120 seats in parliament but needed the support of other parties to reach the 60 plus-one seats required to form a government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The opposition Citizens\u2019 Coalition for Change (CCC)\u2019s \u201cChange Champion in Chief\u201d Nelson Chamisa is in, Maseru, Lesotho where he is attending the inauguration of the country\u2019s new Prime Minister Sam Matekane. Chamisa said he was honoured to be invited to the event, describing the Matekane\u2019s takeover of the reigns in the mountainous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":68469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,35,12],"tags":[12311,1493,2189,5081,12310,64,12478,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-68470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-head-lines","9":"category-homepage-english","10":"category-policy","11":"tag-2022-lesotho-elections","12":"tag-africa-press","13":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","14":"tag-lesotho","15":"tag-lesotho-elections","16":"tag-nelson-chamisa","17":"tag-sam-matekane","18":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chamisa Attends New Lesotho Prime Minister\u2019s Inauguration - 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