{"id":214792,"date":"2025-11-25T09:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-mophuting-lauds-efforts-to-restore-dignity\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T09:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:22:16","slug":"botswana-mophuting-lauds-efforts-to-restore-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-mophuting-lauds-efforts-to-restore-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Mophuting Lauds Efforts to Restore Dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Gaborone \u2014 The reduction of tariffs and revising minimum wage upward amidst economic hardship, demonstrates government&#8217;s commitment to justice, equity, and restoration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Assistant Minister for State President and MP for Bonnington North, Ms Maipelo Mophuting, said when debating the State-of-the-Nation Address (SONA) on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">She siad government had chosen a path that centred on people over profit, compassion over convenience, and legacy over popularity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511240584.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 The reduction of tariffs and revising minimum wage upward amidst economic hardship, demonstrates government&#8217;s commitment to justice, equity, and restoration. The Assistant Minister for State President and MP for Bonnington North, Ms Maipelo Mophuting, said when debating the State-of-the-Nation Address (SONA) on Thursday. She siad government had chosen a path that centred on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214793,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,16577,6357,9462,52951,257,7161,254],"class_list":["post-214792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-dignity","tag-efforts","tag-lauds","tag-mophuting","tag-news","tag-restore","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\/214792","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=214792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}