{"id":209646,"date":"2025-10-12T19:35:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-parakarungu-monument-cultural-time-capsule\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T19:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:35:35","slug":"botswana-parakarungu-monument-cultural-time-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-parakarungu-monument-cultural-time-capsule\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Parakarungu Monument Cultural Time Capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Kasane \u2014 Culture is a bridge that connects the past and the present and carries symbolic values that need to be preserved for future generations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Unveiling the Parakarungu Cultural Heritage Monument on Saturday, Vice President Ndaba Gaolathe commended Basubiya for remaining deeply rooted in their history and cultural heritage, which were displayed through language, food, practices, song and dance on the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Gaolathe said the monument stood as a symbol of the rich cultural heritage of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510070588.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>Kasane \u2014 Culture is a bridge that connects the past and the present and carries symbolic values that need to be preserved for future generations. Unveiling the Parakarungu Cultural Heritage Monument on Saturday, Vice President Ndaba Gaolathe commended Basubiya for remaining deeply rooted in their history and cultural heritage, which were displayed through language, food, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209647,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,52558,9671,14691,257,52557,254,6599],"class_list":["post-209646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-capsule","tag-cultural","tag-monument","tag-news","tag-parakarungu","tag-south-africa-today","tag-time"],"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\/209646","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=209646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}