{"id":193982,"date":"2025-03-19T19:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-elections-2024-audit-reveals-democratic-erosion\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T19:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:16:42","slug":"botswana-elections-2024-audit-reveals-democratic-erosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-elections-2024-audit-reveals-democratic-erosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Elections 2024 Audit Reveals Democratic Erosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Despite Botswana&#8217;s reputation as one of the countries with a stable democracy in Sub Saharan Africa, it is in a state of &#8220;democratic erosion&#8221; when it comes to women in political participation, according to a new study released by Gender Links.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"140\">According to the report, while Batswana and the international community celebrated the ushering of a new government after Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) stormed to victory &#8220;an uneasy truth accompanied these celebrations as women&#8217;s representation in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503190326.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>Despite Botswana&#8217;s reputation as one of the countries with a stable democracy in Sub Saharan Africa, it is in a state of &#8220;democratic erosion&#8221; when it comes to women in political participation, according to a new study released by Gender Links. According to the report, while Batswana and the international community celebrated the ushering of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00150674:8b42eceaecce63c32f42ef2c42de4833:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,7513,4718,2462,6404,821,25403,257,14326,254],"class_list":["post-193982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-audit","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-democratic","tag-elections","tag-erosion","tag-news","tag-reveals","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00150674:8b42eceaecce63c32f42ef2c42de4833:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193982","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=193982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}