{"id":216773,"date":"2025-12-15T22:09:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-chombo-hails-horse-racing-progress\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T20:09:28","slug":"botswana-chombo-hails-horse-racing-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-chombo-hails-horse-racing-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Chombo Hails Horse Racing Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Samedupi \u2014 Horse racing in Botswana has grown at an extraordinary pace. What began as a community pastime, deeply rooted in rural culture and tradition has evolved into a sport of national appeal, attracting competitors and supporters from across the country and even beyond<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Acting Minister of Sport and Arts, Lesego Chombo made the remarks during the official launch of the country&#8217;s first ever professional horse racing starting gates and the opening of the 8th edition of the Premier Champion Cup&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512150495.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>Samedupi \u2014 Horse racing in Botswana has grown at an extraordinary pace. What began as a community pastime, deeply rooted in rural culture and tradition has evolved into a sport of national appeal, attracting competitors and supporters from across the country and even beyond Acting Minister of Sport and Arts, Lesego Chombo made the remarks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216774,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,17060,6952,12339,257,943,15390,254],"class_list":["post-216773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-chombo","tag-hails","tag-horse","tag-news","tag-progress","tag-racing","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\/216773","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=216773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}