{"id":223513,"date":"2026-02-11T12:23:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-state-president-receives-largest-share-of-budget-allocation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:23:56","slug":"botswana-state-president-receives-largest-share-of-budget-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-state-president-receives-largest-share-of-budget-allocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: State President Receives Largest Share of Budget Allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Gaborone \u2014 The Ministry for State President, Defence and Security has been allocated the largest share of the proposed Ministerial Recurrent Budget. The P13.05 billion stake is an increase of P502.77 million or 4.01 percent over this year&#8217;s approved budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Delivering the National Budget for the financial year 2026\/2027 in Gaborone on Monday, Vice president, also Minister of Finance, Mr Ndaba Gaolathe said the proposed budget would largely cover operational requirements of the Botswana Defence&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602110040.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>Gaborone \u2014 The Ministry for State President, Defence and Security has been allocated the largest share of the proposed Ministerial Recurrent Budget. The P13.05 billion stake is an increase of P502.77 million or 4.01 percent over this year&#8217;s approved budget. Delivering the National Budget for the financial year 2026\/2027 in Gaborone on Monday, Vice president, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223514,"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":[258,256,8122,4718,2462,6080,10885,257,2450,6578,7294,254,6017],"class_list":["post-223513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allocation","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-budget","tag-largest","tag-news","tag-president","tag-receives","tag-share","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state"],"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\/223513","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=223513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}