{"id":184253,"date":"2024-11-09T07:15:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T05:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/namibia-botswanas-khama-warns-swapo-risks-losing-elections-if-citizens-are-unhappy-amid-southern-african-political-shift\/"},"modified":"2024-11-09T07:15:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T05:15:34","slug":"namibia-botswanas-khama-warns-swapo-risks-losing-elections-if-citizens-are-unhappy-amid-southern-african-political-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/namibia-botswanas-khama-warns-swapo-risks-losing-elections-if-citizens-are-unhappy-amid-southern-african-political-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Botswana&#8217;s Khama Warns SWAPO Risks Losing Elections If Citizens Are Unhappy Amid Southern African Political Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>Ian Khama reflects on Bostwana&#8217;s historic vote and warns of a similar fate for Swapo if citizens remain dejected.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><strong>Former Botswana president Ian Khama has warned Swapo that it risks losing the upcoming national elections if citizens are not happy with the ruling party&#8217;s performance in the past 34 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">He says the southern African region is undergoing change as liberation movements are slowly losing their grip on power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;No party is immune to what&#8217;s been happening in the region, and I think for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411070041.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>Ian Khama reflects on Bostwana&#8217;s historic vote and warns of a similar fate for Swapo if citizens remain dejected. Former Botswana president Ian Khama has warned Swapo that it risks losing the upcoming national elections if citizens are not happy with the ruling party&#8217;s performance in the past 34 years. He says the southern African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184254,"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":[258,256,4380,2462,10477,7604,821,4684,10575,4706,257,6378,7349,13283,254,7153,1664,8163,6853],"class_list":["post-184253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-botswana-news","tag-botswanas","tag-citizens","tag-elections","tag-khama","tag-losing","tag-namibia","tag-news","tag-political","tag-risks","tag-shift","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-swapo","tag-unhappy","tag-warns"],"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\/184253","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=184253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}