{"id":222833,"date":"2026-02-05T00:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-maun-steps-up-for-cleaner-town\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:10:16","slug":"botswana-maun-steps-up-for-cleaner-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-maun-steps-up-for-cleaner-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Maun Steps Up for Cleaner Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Maun \u2014 The push for a cleaner Maun gained momentum on Friday as North West District Council (NWDC) launched the #KeepMaunClean campaign, linking environmental responsibility to tourism growth, business appeal and community pride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Community members, local leaders and volunteers fanned out across selected areas of Maun to clear litter and restore public spaces, reinforcing the idea that environmental responsibility begins at the community level before it becomes national policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The campaign&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602040581.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>Maun \u2014 The push for a cleaner Maun gained momentum on Friday as North West District Council (NWDC) launched the #KeepMaunClean campaign, linking environmental responsibility to tourism growth, business appeal and community pride. Community members, local leaders and volunteers fanned out across selected areas of Maun to clear litter and restore public spaces, reinforcing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222834,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,24217,2586,257,254,9150,8636],"class_list":["post-222833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-cleaner","tag-maun","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-steps","tag-town"],"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\/222833","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=222833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}