{"id":184745,"date":"2024-11-16T23:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T21:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswanas-opposition-wins-historic-election-as-58-year-bdp-reign-ends\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T23:00:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T21:00:56","slug":"botswanas-opposition-wins-historic-election-as-58-year-bdp-reign-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswanas-opposition-wins-historic-election-as-58-year-bdp-reign-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana&#8217;s Opposition Wins Historic Election As 58-Year BDP Reign Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Botswana&#8217;s opposition candidate, Duma Boko, from the UDC coalition, wins presidency, ending almost six decades of BDP rule.<\/li>\n<li>Economic grievances, especially among youth, drive support for Boko as Botswana&#8217;s economy faces challenges due to downturn in global diamond market.<\/li>\n<li>Botswana&#8217;s GDP per capita at $7,250 in 2023 sees discontent over economic stagnation as growth projected at 1% with 28% unemployment.&#8221;&#8216;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">In a historic political shift, Botswana&#8217;s opposition candidate, Duma Boko of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411040074.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>TLDR Botswana&#8217;s opposition candidate, Duma Boko, from the UDC coalition, wins presidency, ending almost six decades of BDP rule. Economic grievances, especially among youth, drive support for Boko as Botswana&#8217;s economy faces challenges due to downturn in global diamond market. Botswana&#8217;s GDP per capita at $7,250 in 2023 sees discontent over economic stagnation as growth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184746,"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":[49994,258,256,11018,2462,10477,3119,7933,13203,257,5675,20903,254,6552],"class_list":["post-184745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-58year","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bdp","tag-botswana-news","tag-botswanas","tag-election","tag-ends","tag-historic","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-reign","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wins"],"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\/184745","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=184745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}