{"id":212414,"date":"2025-11-03T20:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-uk-government-pledges-support-for-betp\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:23:22","slug":"botswana-uk-government-pledges-support-for-betp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-uk-government-pledges-support-for-betp\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: UK Government Pledges Support for Betp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Maun \u2014 The United Kingdom (UK) government has pledged support to Botswana&#8217;s Economic Transformation Programme (BETP) that aims to accelerate the country&#8217;s growth and drive national development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Through the programme, the government is promoting economic diversification which will eventually create new opportunities for investment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The British high commissioner to Botswana, Mr Giles Enticknap said in an interview during his visit to Maun, that the UK government and Botswana have a long standing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511030417.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>Maun \u2014 The United Kingdom (UK) government has pledged support to Botswana&#8217;s Economic Transformation Programme (BETP) that aims to accelerate the country&#8217;s growth and drive national development. Through the programme, the government is promoting economic diversification which will eventually create new opportunities for investment. The British high commissioner to Botswana, Mr Giles Enticknap said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":212415,"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":[258,256,52772,4718,2462,6427,257,7287,254,6096],"class_list":["post-212414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-betp","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-government","tag-news","tag-pledges","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support"],"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\/212414","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=212414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}