{"id":191816,"date":"2025-02-19T18:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T16:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-overhaul-wuc-f-town-supply-pipes\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T18:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T16:05:20","slug":"botswana-overhaul-wuc-f-town-supply-pipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-overhaul-wuc-f-town-supply-pipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Overhaul Wuc F\/Town Supply Pipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"104\">For many years the city of Francistown has been experiencing pipe bursts and leaks all around the city due to ancient pipes still being used from decades ago. The city&#8217;s leadership expressed their concerns over the issue recently in Francistown in a meeting with the Minister of Water and Human Settlements, Onneetse Ramogapi and Water Utilities Corporation (WUC). City of Francistown Mayor, Gaone Majere told the minister that the development and prosperity of Francistown is heavily dependent on his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502190317.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>For many years the city of Francistown has been experiencing pipe bursts and leaks all around the city due to ancient pipes still being used from decades ago. The city&#8217;s leadership expressed their concerns over the issue recently in Francistown in a meeting with the Minister of Water and Human Settlements, Onneetse Ramogapi and Water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":191817,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,29662,257,17947,38215,254,5236,18354],"class_list":["post-191816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-ftown","tag-news","tag-overhaul","tag-pipes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supply","tag-wuc"],"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\/191816","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=191816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}