{"id":223803,"date":"2026-02-15T00:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-government-plans-to-increase-district-councils\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T00:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:31:08","slug":"botswana-government-plans-to-increase-district-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-government-plans-to-increase-district-councils\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Government Plans to Increase District Councils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Gaborone \u2014 Parliament has heard that consultations are ongoing to create additional District Councils in the next four years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">To that effect, the Ministry of Local Government and Traditional Affairs has commenced consultation processes regarding the possible creation of new districts for the second phase, which would include, among others, Okavango West (Shakawe), Kweneng South (Thamaga), Nata, Tswapong (Lerala\/Sefhare) and Mmadinare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">This was said by Local Government and Traditional Affairs&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602120437.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 Parliament has heard that consultations are ongoing to create additional District Councils in the next four years. To that effect, the Ministry of Local Government and Traditional Affairs has commenced consultation processes regarding the possible creation of new districts for the second phase, which would include, among others, Okavango West (Shakawe), Kweneng South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223804,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,10536,8614,6427,6721,257,5212,254],"class_list":["post-223803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-councils","tag-district","tag-government","tag-increase","tag-news","tag-plans","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\/223803","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=223803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}