{"id":2991,"date":"2024-11-20T10:05:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T08:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopomona.co.zw\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2024-11-20T10:05:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T08:05:21","slug":"we-are-taking-geo-pomona-lessons-home-top-lesotho-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopomona.co.zw\/?p=2991","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe are taking Geo Pomona lessons home\u201d \u2013 Top Lesotho official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Principal Secretary in the Lesotho Ministry of Finance Nthoateng Lebona\u00a0has been impressed by our work at the Geo Pomona Waste Management site where massive transformation happened in a short space.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking touring the site in Pomona on Tuesday afternoon, Lebona relished the opportunity to visit the waste-to-energy project.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebona was accompanied on her tour by our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman Dr Dilesh Nguwaya.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She said changing dumpsite into an environmentally friendly facility was impressive, something the Lesotho Government would like to replicate.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebona said: \u201cI was here last time in August (during the SADC Summit) but I didn\u2019t get a chance to visit the Geo Pomona site. I thought I could see the developments which have happened here, the changes that have happened here; transforming the dumpsite into an environmentally friendly infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lesotho Finance Ministry Principal Secretary said she learnt how Geo Pomona Waste Management Private Limited was contributing towards the industrialisation agenda through the waste to energy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebona added that her country\u2019s population was growing, and there was need to implement a sustainable waste management system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have come to learn how they reached this stage so that I can take these lessons home because we are facing a similar situation,\u201d she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs we industrialise and our population grows, we want to be able to manage waste better and get the benefit of energy production.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebona said: \u201cI was here last time in August (during the SADC Summit) but I didn\u2019t get a chance to visit the Geo Pomona site. I thought I could see the developments which have happened here, the changes that have happened here; transforming the dumpsite into an environmentally friendly infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[11,36,60,29,13,16],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-lesotho","tag-sadc","tag-wastemanagement","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopomona.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopomona.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopomona.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopomona.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopomona.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geopomona.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopomona.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopomona.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopomona.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopomona.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}