{"id":223872,"date":"2026-02-15T12:32:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-fence-around-lentswelemoriti-escalates-tension-between-zcc-council-and-residents\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T12:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:32:34","slug":"botswana-fence-around-lentswelemoriti-escalates-tension-between-zcc-council-and-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-fence-around-lentswelemoriti-escalates-tension-between-zcc-council-and-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Fence Around Lentswelemoriti Escalates Tension Between ZCC Council and Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Lentswelemoriti \u2014 Tension is escalating between Lentswelemoriti residents and a faction of the St. Engenas Zion Christian Church (ZCC) council over issues of consultation and land ownership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The church council faction installed a high-voltage electric fence without community consultation, sparking safety concerns. Residents feel excluded from decision-making processes, while the church claims it&#8217;s private land and doesn&#8217;t need their approval.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Chairperson of Lentswe le Moriti Village Advisory&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602120318.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>Lentswelemoriti \u2014 Tension is escalating between Lentswelemoriti residents and a faction of the St. Engenas Zion Christian Church (ZCC) council over issues of consultation and land ownership. The church council faction installed a high-voltage electric fence without community consultation, sparking safety concerns. Residents feel excluded from decision-making processes, while the church claims it&#8217;s private land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223873,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6158,8580,9417,53656,257,4288,254,7180,53657],"class_list":["post-223872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-council","tag-escalates","tag-fence","tag-lentswelemoriti","tag-news","tag-residents","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tension","tag-zcc"],"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\/223872","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=223872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}