{"id":186827,"date":"2024-12-18T13:28:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T11:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-president-rubbishes-baseless-claims-he-was-given-10-ankole-cattle-by-mnangagwa-opposition-calls-it-a-dirty-gift\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T11:28:24","slug":"botswana-president-rubbishes-baseless-claims-he-was-given-10-ankole-cattle-by-mnangagwa-opposition-calls-it-a-dirty-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-president-rubbishes-baseless-claims-he-was-given-10-ankole-cattle-by-mnangagwa-opposition-calls-it-a-dirty-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana President Rubbishes &#8216;Baseless Claims&#8217; He Was Given 10 Ankole Cattle By Mnangagwa &#8211; Opposition Calls It a &#8216;Dirty Gift&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Botswana President Duma Boko has rubbished claims that he was given 10 cattle of the elite Ankole breed by his Zimbabwean counterpart, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, during a recent SADC meeting in Harare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The big-horned cattle breed which is becoming increasingly popular among Africa&#8217;s Heads of State is also owned by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, South Africa&#8217;s Cyril Ramphosa breeds them at his Phala Phala Farm and Mnangagwa at his Precabe Farm in Kwekwe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">This follows a report by a Botswana&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412180094.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 President Duma Boko has rubbished claims that he was given 10 cattle of the elite Ankole breed by his Zimbabwean counterpart, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, during a recent SADC meeting in Harare. The big-horned cattle breed which is becoming increasingly popular among Africa&#8217;s Heads of State is also owned by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186828,"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":[258,256,50208,11314,4718,2462,6137,5086,8117,8442,16206,7476,257,5675,2450,9856,254],"class_list":["post-186827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ankole","tag-baseless","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-calls","tag-cattle","tag-claims","tag-dirty","tag-gift","tag-mnangagwa","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-president","tag-rubbishes","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/186827","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=186827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}