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After nearly six decades of BDP rule, the triumphant UDC government has the tough task of restoring sound governance.<\/p>\n
Botswana’s 30 October elections ushered in a new era for the country with an emphatic rejection of the ruling party – in power for almost six decades – and a resounding win for President Duma Boko’s Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC).<\/p>\n
The UDC won 36 out of 61 directly elected seats in Parliament, while the former ruling party, the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), won only four….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> After nearly six decades of BDP rule, the triumphant UDC government has the tough task of restoring sound governance. Botswana’s 30 October elections ushered in a new era for the country with an emphatic rejection of the ruling party – in power for almost six decades – and a resounding win for President Duma Boko’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184682,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,4854,8356,8273,257,254,6552],"class_list":["post-184681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-democracy","tag-expectations","tag-great","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wins"],"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\/184681","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=184681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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