{"id":183492,"date":"2024-10-29T00:49:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T22:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/botswana-ambassador-engages-botswana-police-to-guarantee-safety-of-zimbabweans-facing-threats-of-violence-as-masisi-khama-tiff-escalates\/"},"modified":"2024-10-29T00:49:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T22:49:17","slug":"botswana-ambassador-engages-botswana-police-to-guarantee-safety-of-zimbabweans-facing-threats-of-violence-as-masisi-khama-tiff-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/botswana-ambassador-engages-botswana-police-to-guarantee-safety-of-zimbabweans-facing-threats-of-violence-as-masisi-khama-tiff-escalates\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Ambassador Engages Botswana Police to Guarantee Safety of Zimbabweans Facing Threats of Violence As Masisi, Khama Tiff Escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">THE safety of Zimbabweans legally resident in Botswana has been guaranteed after the embassy engaged police following threats of violence against foreigners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">The assurance comes following reports Batswana were planning a wave of attacks on Zimbabweans after Zanu PF elements led by Patrick Chinamasa invaded the neighbouring country and campaigned for the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) ahead of October 30 harmonised elections in which incumbent leader, President Mokgweetsi Masisi is seeking&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410280323.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE safety of Zimbabweans legally resident in Botswana has been guaranteed after the embassy engaged police following threats of violence against foreigners. The assurance comes following reports Batswana were planning a wave of attacks on Zimbabweans after Zanu PF elements led by Patrick Chinamasa invaded the neighbouring country and campaigned for the ruling Botswana Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,6269,4718,7406,8580,10458,8742,4684,11660,257,662,4672,254,7611,19186,2148,421,1487],"class_list":["post-183492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambassador","tag-botswana","tag-engages","tag-escalates","tag-facing","tag-guarantee","tag-khama","tag-masisi","tag-news","tag-police","tag-safety","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threats","tag-tiff","tag-violence","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabweans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183492","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=183492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}