How this website works, and how to check what it publishes
Site maintainers · July 29, 2026 · 4 min read
Where the material on this site comes from, what is not published here, and how any item can be verified against its source.
This post describes the operation of the website. It is not a statement of government policy.
A government website is only as useful as the confidence a reader can place in it. That confidence does not come from the design, or from the coat of arms at the top of the page. It comes from being able to check things. This post sets out where the material here comes from, how to verify any of it, and what this site deliberately does not do.
Everything currently in the news section is published by the Prime Minister himself. Each item is drawn from his account on X, which carries government verification, and each one is reproduced in his own wording. The only editing applied is the removal of the shortened link tails that the platform appends, which carry no meaning and break the flow of a sentence when read on a page rather than in a feed.
At the foot of every item there is a line saying so, with a link to the original post. That link is the point of the exercise. If you want to know whether something on this page was really said, you do not have to take the site's word for it. Follow the link, and you will be looking at the post itself, with its own date and its own engagement, on a platform this site does not control. If the two ever disagree, the original is correct and this site is wrong.
The same applies to the photographs. Every image in the gallery was published by the Prime Minister, and every one carries a link back to the post it appeared in. The images are stored on this site rather than loaded from elsewhere, which means the pages continue to work if the platform changes, but it also means a copy could in principle drift from the original. The link is there so that it can be checked.
What this site does not do is worth stating as plainly as what it does.
It does not publish material written on the Prime Minister's behalf. There are no speeches here that he did not give, no statements he did not issue, and no announcements of policy that has not been announced. This may seem an odd thing to promise. It is worth promising because the alternative is easy, common, and corrosive: a plausible paragraph in a head of government's voice, published under his name, is indistinguishable from a real one to almost every reader, and it does not stop being indistinguishable when it is shared, screenshotted, or quoted back years later.
Several sections of this site are therefore empty. News Releases, Statements, Readouts, Speeches and Media Advisories exist as categories but contain nothing, and they are hidden from the navigation until they do. The Cabinet page lists no ministers. The biography on the About page stops after a paragraph. In each case the material has to come from the office rather than be assembled from secondary sources, and until it does, the honest thing is an empty section rather than a filled one.
It does not track you. There are no analytics on this site, no advertising, no third-party scripts, and no cookies set for any purpose. Nothing you do here is recorded beyond the ordinary technical logging that any web server performs in order to serve a page at all. The subscription form on the Connect page is not connected to a mail service, so anything typed into it goes nowhere and is stored nowhere, and the form says so when you submit it rather than showing a confirmation that would not be true.
It does not require anything of your browser beyond the basics. Every page works without JavaScript. The news filters and pagination are ordinary links with query strings, which means any view you can reach is a web address you can copy, send to someone, and return to later. Search needs JavaScript, and the site says so rather than presenting a box that silently does nothing.
A note on language. A number of the Prime Minister's posts are in Sesotho and they appear here as written, because translating a head of government's words is an editorial act and not a technical one. The surrounding site, its navigation and its headings, is currently in English only. That is a gap rather than a decision, and it is the most significant thing still missing from this site.
None of the above is unusual or clever. It is close to the minimum a state website should be able to say about itself. It is written down here because a reader has no way of knowing which of these things are true of any given site unless someone commits to them in public, where the commitment can be checked and, if broken, pointed at.