{"id":214013,"date":"2025-11-18T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-modise-kgalagadi-south-mp-elect\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T09:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:03:14","slug":"botswana-modise-kgalagadi-south-mp-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-modise-kgalagadi-south-mp-elect\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Modise Kgalagadi South MP Elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Tsabong \u2014 The Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) has retained the Kgalagadi South constituency following a by-election held over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Mr Tokyo Modise (UDC) candidate secured a decisive victory with 6 766 votes, defeating his closest rival, Ms Diana Kaartze of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), who garnered 3,926 votes. This gives Modise a commanding winning margin of 2,840 votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The tightly contested by-election featured five candidates, Botswana Congress Party (BCP) candidate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511180064.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 The Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) has retained the Kgalagadi South constituency following a by-election held over the weekend. Mr Tokyo Modise (UDC) candidate secured a decisive victory with 6 766 votes, defeating his closest rival, Ms Diana Kaartze of the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), who garnered 3,926 votes. This gives Modise a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214014,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6475,31980,21338,257,5069,254],"class_list":["post-214013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-elect","tag-kgalagadi","tag-modise","tag-news","tag-south","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\/214013","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=214013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}