{"id":212352,"date":"2025-11-03T08:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-inflation-climbs-to-3-7-percent-on-rising-fuel-food-costs\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:22:22","slug":"botswana-inflation-climbs-to-3-7-percent-on-rising-fuel-food-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-inflation-climbs-to-3-7-percent-on-rising-fuel-food-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Inflation Climbs to 3.7 Percent On Rising Fuel, Food Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Botswana&#8217;s inflation accelerated to 3.7% in September, its highest level in more than a year, according to new data from Statistics Botswana<\/li>\n<li>The rate jumped sharply from 1.4% in August, driven primarily by higher fuel and food prices following a weakening of the pula after July&#8217;s exchange rate adjustments<\/li>\n<li>Food inflation reached 5.4% in September, up from 5% in August, increasing pressure on household budgets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Botswana&#8217;s inflation accelerated to 3.7% in September, its highest level in more than a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511030003.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>Botswana&#8217;s inflation accelerated to 3.7% in September, its highest level in more than a year, according to new data from Statistics Botswana The rate jumped sharply from 1.4% in August, driven primarily by higher fuel and food prices following a weakening of the pula after July&#8217;s exchange rate adjustments Food inflation reached 5.4% in September, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":212353,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,18380,11509,5074,7570,6265,257,6720,6678,254],"class_list":["post-212352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-climbs","tag-costs","tag-food","tag-fuel","tag-inflation","tag-news","tag-percent","tag-rising","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\/212352","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=212352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}