{"id":212014,"date":"2025-10-31T08:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-ipelegeng-transition-in-full-swing\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:16:50","slug":"botswana-ipelegeng-transition-in-full-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-ipelegeng-transition-in-full-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Ipelegeng Transition in Full Swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Gaborone \u2014 The transformation of Ipelegeng programme from a purely welfare based intervention to promoting skills development is in full swing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Minister of Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Mr Ketlhalefile Motshegwa says the transformation will be such that Ipelegeng evolves beyond short term relief in order to fully realise its potential as a tool for human development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">&#8220;The Ipelegeng programme remains one of the most recognisable pillar of our social protection system providing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510300343.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 transformation of Ipelegeng programme from a purely welfare based intervention to promoting skills development is in full swing. Minister of Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Mr Ketlhalefile Motshegwa says the transformation will be such that Ipelegeng evolves beyond short term relief in order to fully realise its potential as a tool for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":212015,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,10170,13336,257,254,27691,9711],"class_list":["post-212014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-full","tag-ipelegeng","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swing","tag-transition"],"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\/212014","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=212014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}