{"id":177171,"date":"2024-07-24T02:33:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T00:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-kakomee-turns-discarded-metals-into-beautiful-sculptures\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T02:33:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T00:33:30","slug":"botswana-kakomee-turns-discarded-metals-into-beautiful-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-kakomee-turns-discarded-metals-into-beautiful-sculptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Kakomee Turns Discarded Metals Into Beautiful Sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Charles Kakomee showcases the transformative power of art by turning discarded pieces of metals into eye catching sculptures. A Mbanderu natives who hails from Kareng village in the North West District tell this publication about his passion of arts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Where other see bits and pieces of scrap metals destined for trash heap, Kakomee uses these raw materials for new project of Omukaendu o Tjitenda loosely translate &#8216;a woman of steel&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Kakomee explains that the project of Mukaendu o Tjitenda where he&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407230438.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Kakomee showcases the transformative power of art by turning discarded pieces of metals into eye catching sculptures. A Mbanderu natives who hails from Kareng village in the North West District tell this publication about his passion of arts. Where other see bits and pieces of scrap metals destined for trash heap, Kakomee uses these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,5126,4718,2462,28208,49126,22444,257,46987,254,7907],"class_list":["post-177171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beautiful","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-discarded","tag-kakomee","tag-metals","tag-news","tag-sculptures","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}