{"id":210925,"date":"2025-10-23T08:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-collect-ids-ahead-of-by-election\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:01:04","slug":"botswana-collect-ids-ahead-of-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-collect-ids-ahead-of-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Collect IDs Ahead of By-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Tsabong \u2014 The Tsabong District Civil and National Registration office has urged residents to collect their processed Omang cards and renew expired ones as the November 15 Kgalagadi South by-election draws near.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In an interview with BOPA recently, Department of Civil and National Registration deputy acting director, Ms Gaone Matakule stressed that the fundamental right to vote was dependent upon possessing a valid national identity (Omang) card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">She expressed concern that as of October 15, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510220500.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>Tsabong \u2014 The Tsabong District Civil and National Registration office has urged residents to collect their processed Omang cards and renew expired ones as the November 15 Kgalagadi South by-election draws near. In an interview with BOPA recently, Department of Civil and National Registration deputy acting director, Ms Gaone Matakule stressed that the fundamental right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210926,"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":[258,256,7019,4718,2462,9913,19170,25398,257,254],"class_list":["post-210925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-byelection","tag-collect","tag-ids","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/210925","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=210925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}