{"id":204999,"date":"2025-08-19T15:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-air-botswana-gobbles-p1-billion\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T15:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:37:33","slug":"botswana-air-botswana-gobbles-p1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-air-botswana-gobbles-p1-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Air Botswana Gobbles P1 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Government has given Air Botswanaover a billion pula between 2019 and 2024, largely to maintain the airline&#8217;s ageing fleet, cover operational shortfalls, and pay staff salaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">The shocking revelation was made by Minister of Transport &amp;Infrastructure, Noah Salakaeon Friday when responding to a question from Chobe MP, Simasiku Mapulanga. He outlined the annual support, revealing that the national airline received P17 million in 2019\/20 for a refleeting exercise following the acquisition of one&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508190249.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>Government has given Air Botswanaover a billion pula between 2019 and 2024, largely to maintain the airline&#8217;s ageing fleet, cover operational shortfalls, and pay staff salaries. The shocking revelation was made by Minister of Transport &amp;Infrastructure, Noah Salakaeon Friday when responding to a question from Chobe MP, Simasiku Mapulanga. He outlined the annual support, revealing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,7832,6495,4718,2462,40614,257,254],"class_list":["post-204999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air","tag-billion","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-gobbles","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/204999","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=204999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}