{"id":209945,"date":"2025-10-15T19:45:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-girly-vows-to-rebrand-molepolole-image\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:45:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:45:28","slug":"botswana-girly-vows-to-rebrand-molepolole-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-girly-vows-to-rebrand-molepolole-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Girly Vows to Rebrand Molepolole Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Molepolole \u2014 Miss Tourism World finalist, Girly Kookilwe has vowed to use her beauty pageant experience and international exposure to project her home village of Molepolole in a positive light.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The 25-year-old represented Botswana at the Miss Tourism World 2025 pageant last month in China, where 75 countries participated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Speaking at a welcome ceremony held in her honour at Lesimakgosi ward in Molepolole recently, the current Miss Botswana second princess said though she did not bring home the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510140281.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>Molepolole \u2014 Miss Tourism World finalist, Girly Kookilwe has vowed to use her beauty pageant experience and international exposure to project her home village of Molepolole in a positive light. The 25-year-old represented Botswana at the Miss Tourism World 2025 pageant last month in China, where 75 countries participated. Speaking at a welcome ceremony held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209946,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,52585,16371,12641,257,18153,254,9639],"class_list":["post-209945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-girly","tag-image","tag-molepolole","tag-news","tag-rebrand","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vows"],"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\/209945","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=209945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}