{"id":223454,"date":"2026-02-11T00:22:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-khoemacau-expansion-to-drive-jobs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:22:52","slug":"botswana-khoemacau-expansion-to-drive-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-khoemacau-expansion-to-drive-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Khoemacau Expansion to Drive Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Toteng \u2014 The expansion of the Khoemacau Copper Mine is set to transform Botswana into a key global copper exporter and inject substantial employment and training opportunities into the local economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The project, which officially broke ground last Friday, centres on the development of three new mines. The next phase of growth directly fulfils the promise made by MMG Limited during its 2023 acquisition to create a long-life operation with a lifespan exceeding 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Speaking at the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602100564.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>Toteng \u2014 The expansion of the Khoemacau Copper Mine is set to transform Botswana into a key global copper exporter and inject substantial employment and training opportunities into the local economy. The project, which officially broke ground last Friday, centres on the development of three new mines. The next phase of growth directly fulfils the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223455,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,13716,5779,6643,53628,257,254],"class_list":["post-223454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-drive","tag-expansion","tag-jobs","tag-khoemacau","tag-news","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\/223454","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=223454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}