{"id":225534,"date":"2026-02-28T01:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-unipod-to-empower-youth-and-promote-research\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:03:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T23:03:02","slug":"botswana-unipod-to-empower-youth-and-promote-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-unipod-to-empower-youth-and-promote-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Unipod to Empower Youth and Promote Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Gaborone \u2014 Minister of Higher Education, Mr Prince Maele, undertook an official familiarisation tour of the innovation and creativity hub at the University of Botswana, UniPod Botswana on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">As the first flagship initiative of its kind in the country, UniPod Botswana is a pioneering innovation hub designed to transform ideas into impactful solutions. The initiative aims to empower youth, accelerate research commercialisation, and foster collaboration between academia, industry and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602260592.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 Minister of Higher Education, Mr Prince Maele, undertook an official familiarisation tour of the innovation and creativity hub at the University of Botswana, UniPod Botswana on Monday. As the first flagship initiative of its kind in the country, UniPod Botswana is a pioneering innovation hub designed to transform ideas into impactful solutions. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225535,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,7924,257,7067,6712,254,53777,6276],"class_list":["post-225534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-empower","tag-news","tag-promote","tag-research","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unipod","tag-youth"],"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\/225534","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=225534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}