{"id":220543,"date":"2026-01-15T11:16:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-council-repairs-rain-damaged-roads\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:16:02","slug":"botswana-council-repairs-rain-damaged-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-council-repairs-rain-damaged-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Council Repairs Rain Damaged Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Molepolole \u2014 Kweneng District Council has commenced grading of internal gravel roads following damage caused by persistent rainfall across the district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Chairperson of Kweneng District Council, Mr Ontefetse Rankhibidu said the grading exercise which started in Molepolole recently, would cover internal roads in all 22 villages within the district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">He explained that due to financial constraints, the improvement of the internal road network was being carried out in-house using council&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601120463.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>Molepolole \u2014 Kweneng District Council has commenced grading of internal gravel roads following damage caused by persistent rainfall across the district. The Chairperson of Kweneng District Council, Mr Ontefetse Rankhibidu said the grading exercise which started in Molepolole recently, would cover internal roads in all 22 villages within the district. He explained that due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":220544,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6158,14666,257,16041,13174,9013,254],"class_list":["post-220543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-council","tag-damaged","tag-news","tag-rain","tag-repairs","tag-roads","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\/220543","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=220543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}