{"id":226230,"date":"2026-03-07T01:19:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-speakers-pay-tribute-to-mooketsi\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T01:19:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:19:04","slug":"botswana-speakers-pay-tribute-to-mooketsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-speakers-pay-tribute-to-mooketsi\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Speakers Pay Tribute to Mooketsi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Gaborone \u2014 Different speakers have described former women boxer, Pearl &#8216;Tsitsi&#8217; Mooketsi as a loving, caring and dedicated person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Mooketsi, who died on Monday, will be buried in Serowe on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Mooketsi, who worked at the Botswana National Sports Commission (BNSC) as Boxing Development Officer, was the only woman in Botswana with Star 3 coaching qualification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">BNSC director of sports development, Peaceful Seleka, described her as a dedicated employee who left an inedible mark in their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603060522.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 Different speakers have described former women boxer, Pearl &#8216;Tsitsi&#8217; Mooketsi as a loving, caring and dedicated person. Mooketsi, who died on Monday, will be buried in Serowe on Saturday. Mooketsi, who worked at the Botswana National Sports Commission (BNSC) as Boxing Development Officer, was the only woman in Botswana with Star 3 coaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226231,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,53838,257,9105,254,14589,10225],"class_list":["post-226230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-mooketsi","tag-news","tag-pay","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speakers","tag-tribute"],"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\/226230","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=226230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}