{"id":213452,"date":"2025-11-13T08:49:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-positions-itself-as-trade-and-connectivity-hub\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T08:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:49:16","slug":"botswana-positions-itself-as-trade-and-connectivity-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-positions-itself-as-trade-and-connectivity-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Positions Itself As Trade and Connectivity Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Gaborone \u2014 Government intends to improve the national roads network through high quality tolled roads to ensure sustainability in the development and maintenance of roads in Botswana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">President Advocate Duma Boko said this when delivering the State-of-the-Nation Address in Gaborone yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">President Advocate Boko said the move was in line with the commitment of transforming Botswana into a transport hub for the 360 million strong Southern African Development Committee market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511110304.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 Government intends to improve the national roads network through high quality tolled roads to ensure sustainability in the development and maintenance of roads in Botswana. President Advocate Duma Boko said this when delivering the State-of-the-Nation Address in Gaborone yesterday. President Advocate Boko said the move was in line with the commitment of transforming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":213453,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,17164,7448,257,9323,254,5979],"class_list":["post-213452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-connectivity","tag-hub","tag-news","tag-positions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade"],"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\/213452","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=213452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}