{"id":223966,"date":"2026-02-16T12:34:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-a35-road-under-construction\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:34:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:34:43","slug":"botswana-a35-road-under-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-a35-road-under-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: A35 Road Under Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Gaborone \u2014 Parliament has been informed that the construction of the A35 Gumare-Sepopa Road is being carried out in half-width sections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Answering a question in Parliament on Tuesday, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Mr Noah Salakae said the method allowed for the use of gravel bypasses until each section was completed, at which point traffic was diverted onto the newly constructed side while work continued on the opposite lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">He explained that such approach was necessitated by a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602110333.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 been informed that the construction of the A35 Gumare-Sepopa Road is being carried out in half-width sections. Answering a question in Parliament on Tuesday, Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Mr Noah Salakae said the method allowed for the use of gravel bypasses until each section was completed, at which point traffic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223967,"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":[53666,258,256,4718,2462,7601,257,7414,254],"class_list":["post-223966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-a35","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-construction","tag-news","tag-road","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\/223966","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=223966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}