{"id":225108,"date":"2026-02-26T00:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-over-600-000-await-land-allocation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:59:16","slug":"botswana-over-600-000-await-land-allocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-over-600-000-await-land-allocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Over 600 000 Await Land Allocation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Gaborone \u2014 Parliament has been informed that the Land Information System shows that 687,486 people eligible in accordance with Botswana Land Policy of 2019, are awaiting land allocation, indicating the magnitude of national demand for serviced and titled land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Responding to a question in Parliament on Tuesday on behalf of acting Minister of Lands and Agriculture, Assistant Minister of Trade and Entrepreneurship Mr Baratiwa Mathoothe said the ministry was aware of the significant backlog in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602250539.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 Land Information System shows that 687,486 people eligible in accordance with Botswana Land Policy of 2019, are awaiting land allocation, indicating the magnitude of national demand for serviced and titled land. Responding to a question in Parliament on Tuesday on behalf of acting Minister of Lands and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225109,"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":[258,256,8122,22443,4718,2462,6122,257,254],"class_list":["post-225108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allocation","tag-await","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-land","tag-news","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\/225108","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=225108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}