{"id":184602,"date":"2024-11-14T19:29:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-botswana-is-a-signal-says-chamisa-claims-he-beat-mnangagwa-twice-in-elections-but-he-refused-to-go\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T19:29:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:29:06","slug":"botswana-botswana-is-a-signal-says-chamisa-claims-he-beat-mnangagwa-twice-in-elections-but-he-refused-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-botswana-is-a-signal-says-chamisa-claims-he-beat-mnangagwa-twice-in-elections-but-he-refused-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: &#8216;Botswana Is a Signal&#8217; &#8211; Says Chamisa, Claims He Beat Mnangagwa Twice in Elections but He Refused to Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">FORMER Citizens&#8217; Coalition for Change (CCC\/ president, Nelson Chamisa says the democratic transition in neighbouring Botswana is a sign that winds of change are blowing in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Speaking on the sidelines of the inauguration of new Botswana president Duma Gideon Boko Friday, Chamisa told State television broadcaster BTV that he annihilated President Emmerson Mnangagwa twice but the 82-year-old Zanu PF leader refused to vacate office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Chamisa said he expected Mnangagwa, who sat two rows from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411110051.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>FORMER Citizens&#8217; Coalition for Change (CCC\/ president, Nelson Chamisa says the democratic transition in neighbouring Botswana is a sign that winds of change are blowing in the region. Speaking on the sidelines of the inauguration of new Botswana president Duma Gideon Boko Friday, Chamisa told State television broadcaster BTV that he annihilated President Emmerson Mnangagwa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631777:3c4abbf69285f0c4b640f9183b3f6730:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,5065,4718,2462,17330,8117,821,7476,257,24186,13968,254],"class_list":["post-184602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beat","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-chamisa","tag-claims","tag-elections","tag-mnangagwa","tag-news","tag-refused","tag-signal","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631777:3c4abbf69285f0c4b640f9183b3f6730:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184602","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=184602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}