{"id":223901,"date":"2026-02-16T00:33:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-find-alternative-transport-for-learners\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:33:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:33:20","slug":"botswana-find-alternative-transport-for-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-find-alternative-transport-for-learners\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Find Alternative Transport for Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Gaborone \u2014 Local authorities have been instructed to find alternative modes of transport following government&#8217;s resolve that donkey carts are unsuitable for ferrying learners. The decision stemmed from concerns that donkey carts exposed learners to safety risks, including road accidents and harsh weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Minister of Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Mr Ketlhalefile Motshegwa, said this answering a question from Member of Parliament for Mmopane-Metsimotlhabe, Ms Helen&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602110334.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 Local authorities have been instructed to find alternative modes of transport following government&#8217;s resolve that donkey carts are unsuitable for ferrying learners. The decision stemmed from concerns that donkey carts exposed learners to safety risks, including road accidents and harsh weather conditions. Minister of Local Government and Traditional Affairs, Mr Ketlhalefile Motshegwa, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223902,"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":[258,256,13222,4718,2462,5171,6139,257,254,8343],"class_list":["post-223901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alternative","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-find","tag-learners","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transport"],"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\/223901","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=223901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}