{"id":210832,"date":"2025-10-22T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-nkange-youth-demand-priority-in-ipelegeng\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:00:05","slug":"botswana-nkange-youth-demand-priority-in-ipelegeng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-nkange-youth-demand-priority-in-ipelegeng\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Nkange Youth Demand Priority in Ipelegeng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Nkange \u2014 Young people in Nkange, Tutume District have appealed to government to prioritise Ipelegeng job opportunities for the youth, as they were the most affected by unemployment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">Sharing their views at a kgotla meeting addressed by Assistant Minister of Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Mr Ignatius Moswaane recently, they said although they had been previously competing with the elderly for Ipelegeng positions, there need to be a change in how the quota was allocated, as pensioners&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510220501.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>Nkange \u2014 Young people in Nkange, Tutume District have appealed to government to prioritise Ipelegeng job opportunities for the youth, as they were the most affected by unemployment. Sharing their views at a kgotla meeting addressed by Assistant Minister of Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Mr Ignatius Moswaane recently, they said although they had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210833,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,7617,13336,257,52645,9570,254,6276],"class_list":["post-210832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-demand","tag-ipelegeng","tag-news","tag-nkange","tag-priority","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youth"],"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\/210832","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=210832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}