{"id":210200,"date":"2025-10-17T19:49:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-ministry-commits-to-sports-and-arts-dev\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:49:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:49:57","slug":"botswana-ministry-commits-to-sports-and-arts-dev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-ministry-commits-to-sports-and-arts-dev\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Ministry Commits to Sports and Arts Dev."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Gaborone \u2014 The Ministry of Sport and Arts is committed to ensuring that both sport and arts become economic engines that drive the economy and increase Botswana&#8217;s global footprint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Minister of Sport and Arts Jacob Kelebeng said the exploits of Team Botswana at the World Championships were a prelude of what the nation would experience in the future, and that his ministry would do its utmost to ensure that Botswana continues to excel in sport and arts on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Minister Kelebeng was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510070528.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 The Ministry of Sport and Arts is committed to ensuring that both sport and arts become economic engines that drive the economy and increase Botswana&#8217;s global footprint. Minister of Sport and Arts Jacob Kelebeng said the exploits of Team Botswana at the World Championships were a prelude of what the nation would experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210201,"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":[258,256,12300,4718,2462,10180,23519,6857,257,254,8045],"class_list":["post-210200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arts","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-commits","tag-dev","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sports"],"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\/210200","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=210200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}