{"id":186988,"date":"2024-12-21T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/south-africa-botswanas-new-administration-lifts-ban-on-sa-vegetable-imports\/"},"modified":"2024-12-21T01:32:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T23:32:00","slug":"south-africa-botswanas-new-administration-lifts-ban-on-sa-vegetable-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/south-africa-botswanas-new-administration-lifts-ban-on-sa-vegetable-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Botswana&#8217;s New Administration Lifts Ban On SA Vegetable Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Ronald Lamola, has welcomed Botswana&#8217;s commitment to strengthening ties and promoting trade with South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">This follows Lamola receiving a letter from his counterpart in Botswana, Dr Phenyo Butale, informing him of the new administration&#8217;s decision to lift the ban on vegetable imports from South Africa gradually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;This letter follows a congratulatory message sent by Minister Lamola to Dr Butale on his appointment as Minister of International&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412200420.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>International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Ronald Lamola, has welcomed Botswana&#8217;s commitment to strengthening ties and promoting trade with South Africa. This follows Lamola receiving a letter from his counterpart in Botswana, Dr Phenyo Butale, informing him of the new administration&#8217;s decision to lift the ban on vegetable imports from South Africa gradually. &#8220;This letter follows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186989,"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":[7115,258,256,7185,2462,10477,10673,7840,257,5069,254,11447],"class_list":["post-186988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-administration","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ban","tag-botswana-news","tag-botswanas","tag-imports","tag-lifts","tag-news","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vegetable"],"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\/186988","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=186988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}