{"id":184389,"date":"2024-11-11T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T17:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswanas-new-leader-vows-to-legalize-zimbabwean-migrants\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T19:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T17:22:24","slug":"botswanas-new-leader-vows-to-legalize-zimbabwean-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswanas-new-leader-vows-to-legalize-zimbabwean-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana&#8217;s New Leader Vows to Legalize Zimbabwean Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Botswana&#8217;s new president intends to legalize undocumented Zimbabwean migrants, saying migrants &#8220;perform jobs that otherwise not get done&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Newly inaugurated<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/view\/group\/main\/main\/id\/00090962.html\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0President Boko <\/a>made the remarks after winning the country&#8217;s historic election last week, which\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/view\/group\/main\/main\/id\/00090801.html\" rel=\"noopener\">unseated<\/a>\u00a0the party governing Botswana since 1966.\u00a0 Boko said he wants undocumented Zimbabweans to be legalized by granting them temporary work and residence permits, reported\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c7v3l3zr63vo\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Since Zimbabwe&#8217;s economy collapsed due to hyperinflation two&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411110523.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>Botswana&#8217;s new president intends to legalize undocumented Zimbabwean migrants, saying migrants &#8220;perform jobs that otherwise not get done&#8221;. Newly inaugurated\u00a0President Boko made the remarks after winning the country&#8217;s historic election last week, which\u00a0unseated\u00a0the party governing Botswana since 1966.\u00a0 Boko said he wants undocumented Zimbabweans to be legalized by granting them temporary work and residence permits, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184390,"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":[258,256,2462,10477,7079,14695,6928,257,254,9639,325],"class_list":["post-184389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana-news","tag-botswanas","tag-leader","tag-legalize","tag-migrants","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vows","tag-zimbabwean"],"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\/184389","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=184389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}