{"id":213886,"date":"2025-11-17T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-udc-retains-kgalagadi-south-constituency\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:00:59","slug":"botswana-udc-retains-kgalagadi-south-constituency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-udc-retains-kgalagadi-south-constituency\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: UDC Retains Kgalagadi South Constituency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Tsabong \u2014 Mr Tokyo Modise of the Umbrella for Democractic Change is the new Member of Parliament elect for Kgalagadi South constituency after garnerning 6 766 votes to win the bye election held on November 15<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Ms Diana Kartze of Botswana Democractic Party came second with 3 926 while Mr Tshephang Brooks of Botswana Congress Party registered 946 votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Mr Kealeboga Kapeko, an independent candidate registered 116 votes while Mr Phenyo Sedimonyane of Botswana Patriotic Front came last with 99 and 46&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511170113.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>Tsabong \u2014 Mr Tokyo Modise of the Umbrella for Democractic Change is the new Member of Parliament elect for Kgalagadi South constituency after garnerning 6 766 votes to win the bye election held on November 15 Ms Diana Kartze of Botswana Democractic Party came second with 3 926 while Mr Tshephang Brooks of Botswana Congress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":213887,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,9268,31980,257,8978,5069,254,3580],"class_list":["post-213886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-constituency","tag-kgalagadi","tag-news","tag-retains","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-udc"],"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\/213886","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=213886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}