{"id":184366,"date":"2024-11-11T07:20:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T05:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/zimbabwe-chamisa-hails-outgoing-botswana-president-masisi-for-conceding-election-defeat\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T07:20:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T05:20:33","slug":"zimbabwe-chamisa-hails-outgoing-botswana-president-masisi-for-conceding-election-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/zimbabwe-chamisa-hails-outgoing-botswana-president-masisi-for-conceding-election-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chamisa Hails Outgoing Botswana President Masisi for Conceding Election Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">ZIMBABWE&#8217;S main opposition politician, Nelson Chamisa has welcomed the smooth power transition in neighbouring Botswana, where the sitting President Mokgweetsi Masisi conceded defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Masisi&#8217;s Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in power for nearly six decades, lost to president-elect Duma Boko&#8217;s opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), which swept most parliamentary seats allowing it to choose the next president and Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">In a social media post Friday, Chamisa commended Masisi for what he&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411040076.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>ZIMBABWE&#8217;S main opposition politician, Nelson Chamisa has welcomed the smooth power transition in neighbouring Botswana, where the sitting President Mokgweetsi Masisi conceded defeat. Masisi&#8217;s Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) in power for nearly six decades, lost to president-elect Duma Boko&#8217;s opposition Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), which swept most parliamentary seats allowing it to choose the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660448:31a48c05618c409baa1381e7ff99f807:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,17330,49938,6531,3119,6952,11660,257,18108,2450,254,4686],"class_list":["post-184366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-chamisa","tag-conceding","tag-defeat","tag-election","tag-hails","tag-masisi","tag-news","tag-outgoing","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660448:31a48c05618c409baa1381e7ff99f807:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184366","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=184366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}