{"id":225680,"date":"2026-03-01T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-free-movement-ideal-for-trade-facilitation-simasiku\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:06:00","slug":"botswana-free-movement-ideal-for-trade-facilitation-simasiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-free-movement-ideal-for-trade-facilitation-simasiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Free Movement Ideal for Trade Facilitation &#8211; Simasiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Kazungula \u2014 Botswana and Zambia Presidents have been urged to consider implementing the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Protocol on the Facilitation of Movement of Persons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The protocol encourages free movement in the SADC region where citizens of member states would use national identity cards for cross border travel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Botswana and Namibia implemented the protocol in 2023, resulting in easier, faster and more effective travel for citizens of the two countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602260587.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>Kazungula \u2014 Botswana and Zambia Presidents have been urged to consider implementing the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Protocol on the Facilitation of Movement of Persons. The protocol encourages free movement in the SADC region where citizens of member states would use national identity cards for cross border travel. Botswana and Namibia implemented the protocol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225681,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6422,6544,19937,8239,257,29183,254,5979],"class_list":["post-225680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-facilitation","tag-free","tag-ideal","tag-movement","tag-news","tag-simasiku","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade"],"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\/225680","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=225680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}