{"id":179355,"date":"2024-08-27T15:52:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T13:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/botswana-limpopo-river-a-lifeline-to-many\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T15:52:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T13:52:24","slug":"botswana-limpopo-river-a-lifeline-to-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/botswana-limpopo-river-a-lifeline-to-many\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Limpopo River a Lifeline to Many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">RIGHT in the Shashe River &#8212; one of the major tributaries of the Limpopo River &#8212; I witnessed nature in harmony with itself and realised why the Limpopo River Basin is a lifeline to many.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">To my far left, a man from Botswana was taking a cold bath near the banks of the river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Soon after his bath, he proceeded towards a man-made water well that was in the middle of the river to fetch some drinking water to take home to his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">To my right, I could see some youths from Zimbabwe herding their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408270274.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIGHT in the Shashe River &#8212; one of the major tributaries of the Limpopo River &#8212; I witnessed nature in harmony with itself and realised why the Limpopo River Basin is a lifeline to many. To my far left, a man from Botswana was taking a cold bath near the banks of the river. Soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":179356,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,4718,14266,1174,682,257,7263,254],"class_list":["post-179355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-lifeline","tag-limpopo","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-river","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/179355","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=179355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}