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Francistown \u2014 The Vice President Ndaba Gaolathe has emphasised the crucial role of tourism in driving socio-economic transformation and shared prosperity across Botswana.<\/p>\n
Delivering the keynote address at the launch of the 2026 Tourism Pitso in Francistown on Thursday, Mr Gaolathe, also Minister of Finance, highlighted the sector’s potential to contribute to economic diversification and job creation.<\/p>\n
He explained that the Botswana Economic Transformation Programme (BETP) and National Development…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Francistown \u2014 The Vice President Ndaba Gaolathe has emphasised the crucial role of tourism in driving socio-economic transformation and shared prosperity across Botswana. Delivering the keynote address at the launch of the 2026 Tourism Pitso in Francistown on Thursday, Mr Gaolathe, also Minister of Finance, highlighted the sector’s potential to contribute to economic diversification and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222119,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,7274,257,12870,6480,254,1634],"class_list":["post-222118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-key","tag-news","tag-prosperity","tag-shared","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tourism"],"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\/222118","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=222118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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