{"id":209736,"date":"2025-10-13T19:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-gcc-aims-to-p15m-in-vendor-debt\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T19:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:38:21","slug":"botswana-gcc-aims-to-p15m-in-vendor-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-gcc-aims-to-p15m-in-vendor-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: GCC Aims to P15m in Vendor Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Gaborone \u2014 Gaborone City Council (GCC) has put in place a special dispensation to collect P15 million debt owed by vendors and hawkers operating in the bus rank stalls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Addressing the media last week, Gaborone city mayor Mr Oarabile Motlaleng said those occupying stalls would however be allowed to operate until December, while they established payment plans to settle their debts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Mr Motlaleng said some market occupants did not have contracts with the council, as their stalls had been sub-let to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510130504.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>Gaborone \u2014 Gaborone City Council (GCC) has put in place a special dispensation to collect P15 million debt owed by vendors and hawkers operating in the bus rank stalls. Addressing the media last week, Gaborone city mayor Mr Oarabile Motlaleng said those occupying stalls would however be allowed to operate until December, while they established [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209737,"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":[258,256,14488,4718,2462,6861,52564,257,52565,254,26700],"class_list":["post-209736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aims","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-debt","tag-gcc","tag-news","tag-p15m","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vendor"],"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\/209736","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=209736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}