{"id":209324,"date":"2025-10-09T07:28:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-road-upgrade-priority-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T07:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:28:29","slug":"botswana-road-upgrade-priority-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-road-upgrade-priority-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Road Upgrade Priority &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Seronga \u2014 Government will prioritise upgrading of the Mohembo-Gudigwa road once the economy recovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Responding to comments raised by residents during a kgotla meeting in Seronga on Monday, Vice President Ndaba Gaolathe said due to the prevailing economic situation, the government could not fulfill some of its promises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">However, he said efforts were being made to diversify income generation streams to be able to address some of the challenges faced by the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510080044.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>Seronga \u2014 Government will prioritise upgrading of the Mohembo-Gudigwa road once the economy recovers. Responding to comments raised by residents during a kgotla meeting in Seronga on Monday, Vice President Ndaba Gaolathe said due to the prevailing economic situation, the government could not fulfill some of its promises. However, he said efforts were being made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209325,"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":[258,256,42655,4718,2462,257,9570,7414,254,12981],"class_list":["post-209324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-news","tag-priority","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-upgrade"],"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\/209324","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=209324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}