{"id":213615,"date":"2025-11-14T20:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-partial-pensions-withdrawal-strives-for-balance\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:54:15","slug":"botswana-partial-pensions-withdrawal-strives-for-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-partial-pensions-withdrawal-strives-for-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Partial Pensions Withdrawal Strives for Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Gaborone \u2014 Any consideration of allowing partial access to pension funds during active service needs to balance the need for short-term financial relief with the long-term goal of ensuring adequate retirement income, says Minister of Finance, Mr Ndaba Gaolathe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Mr Gaolathe was responding to a question from the Member of Parliament for Molepolole North, Mr Arafat Khan. Mr Gaolathe said the current framework was primarily designed to promote long-term savings and financial security after&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511140575.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 Any consideration of allowing partial access to pension funds during active service needs to balance the need for short-term financial relief with the long-term goal of ensuring adequate retirement income, says Minister of Finance, Mr Ndaba Gaolathe. Mr Gaolathe was responding to a question from the Member of Parliament for Molepolole North, Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":213616,"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":[258,256,9848,4718,2462,257,12493,10154,254,15285,11279],"class_list":["post-213615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-balance","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-news","tag-partial","tag-pensions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strives","tag-withdrawal"],"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\/213615","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=213615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}