{"id":220716,"date":"2026-01-16T23:20:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-mophato-prepares-for-camping\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:20:58","slug":"botswana-mophato-prepares-for-camping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-mophato-prepares-for-camping\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Mophato Prepares for Camping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Kanye \u2014 The registration for GaNgwaketse mophato initiation exercise will start in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The aim of the exercise is to instill positivity and transform such behaviours into disciplined adulthood through cultural teachings. Addressing a kgotla meeting recently, Kgosi Malope II of Bangwaketse said this year, mophato initiation would include a camping experience aimed at youth aged 1996 to 2000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Kgosi Malope II emphasised the importance of registering those within this age group to facilitate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601160296.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>Kanye \u2014 The registration for GaNgwaketse mophato initiation exercise will start in March. The aim of the exercise is to instill positivity and transform such behaviours into disciplined adulthood through cultural teachings. Addressing a kgotla meeting recently, Kgosi Malope II of Bangwaketse said this year, mophato initiation would include a camping experience aimed at youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":220717,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,30980,53428,257,7240,254],"class_list":["post-220716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-camping","tag-mophato","tag-news","tag-prepares","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\/220716","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=220716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}