{"id":184804,"date":"2024-11-17T23:35:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/southern-africa-masisis-shock-defeat-in-botswana-heralds-big-changes-difficult-turnaround\/"},"modified":"2024-11-17T23:35:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T21:35:10","slug":"southern-africa-masisis-shock-defeat-in-botswana-heralds-big-changes-difficult-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/southern-africa-masisis-shock-defeat-in-botswana-heralds-big-changes-difficult-turnaround\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Masisi&#8217;s Shock Defeat in Botswana Heralds Big Changes, Difficult Turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><em> Botswana has a new boss in President Duma Boko after an election victory over a party that has been in power since independence 58 years ago. A lot is set to change, including the country&#8217;s relations with South Africa and Zimbabwe. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Listen to this article 6 min Listen to this article 6 min Botswana held its national election on 30 October and President Mokgweetsi Eric Masisi and the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) were soundly beaten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The BDP has been the ruling party of Botswana since its&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411040072.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 has a new boss in President Duma Boko after an election victory over a party that has been in power since independence 58 years ago. A lot is set to change, including the country&#8217;s relations with South Africa and Zimbabwe. Listen to this article 6 min Listen to this article 6 min Botswana held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184805,"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":[258,256,8559,4718,2462,6531,10795,33559,21119,257,7985,254,7153,16634],"class_list":["post-184804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-big","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-defeat","tag-difficult","tag-heralds","tag-masisis","tag-news","tag-shock","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-turnaround"],"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\/184804","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=184804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}