{"id":210443,"date":"2025-10-19T19:53:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-boko-gave-voices-to-some-but\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:53:57","slug":"botswana-boko-gave-voices-to-some-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-boko-gave-voices-to-some-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Boko Gave Voices to Some, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">While government decision to air news bulletins in indigenous languages has been hailed as a breakthrough for inclusion, it has also raised fresh questions about how the country&#8217;s vast linguistic diversity will be accommodated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">President Duma Boko, on Monday, launched the bulletins in Ikalanga, Shekgalagari, Naro and Shiyeyi, declaring that &#8220;no community should be invisible.&#8221; The bulletins, which will run on Botswana Television and Radio Botswana, are the first step in a phased programme to open&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510060205.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>While government decision to air news bulletins in indigenous languages has been hailed as a breakthrough for inclusion, it has also raised fresh questions about how the country&#8217;s vast linguistic diversity will be accommodated. President Duma Boko, on Monday, launched the bulletins in Ikalanga, Shekgalagari, Naro and Shiyeyi, declaring that &#8220;no community should be invisible.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660448:31a48c05618c409baa1381e7ff99f807:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[45299,258,256,4264,4718,2462,15087,257,254,6389],"class_list":["post-210443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-but","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-gave","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-voices"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660448:31a48c05618c409baa1381e7ff99f807:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210443","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=210443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}