{"id":182125,"date":"2024-10-08T18:02:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T16:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-political-parties-convene-in-gaborone-for-poll-watching-pre-election-workshop\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T18:02:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T16:02:06","slug":"botswana-political-parties-convene-in-gaborone-for-poll-watching-pre-election-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-political-parties-convene-in-gaborone-for-poll-watching-pre-election-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Political Parties Convene in Gaborone for Poll Watching Pre-Election Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Botswana is set to hold general elections on 30 October 2024. This election is considered the most competitive in Botswana’s history, with more political parties contesting the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) under the newly formed coalition of opposition parties – Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and Botswana Congress Party (BCP).<\/p>\n

As part of its ongoing initiatives to support resilient democracies in the region, Democracy Works Foundation (DWF) organised a pre-election…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Botswana is set to hold general elections on 30 October 2024. This election is considered the most competitive in Botswana’s history, with more political parties contesting the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) under the newly formed coalition of opposition parties – Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) and Botswana Congress Party (BCP). As part of its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182126,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,13535,2858,257,6744,6378,7517,23356,254,12424,6278],"class_list":["post-182125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-convene","tag-gaborone","tag-news","tag-parties","tag-political","tag-poll","tag-preelection","tag-south-africa-today","tag-watching","tag-workshop"],"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\/182125","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=182125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}