{"id":226964,"date":"2026-03-15T13:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-national-stadium-to-be-ready-for-world-relays\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:35:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:35:52","slug":"botswana-national-stadium-to-be-ready-for-world-relays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-national-stadium-to-be-ready-for-world-relays\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: National Stadium to Be Ready for World Relays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Gaborone \u2014 Minister of Sport and Arts, Jacob Kelebeng has confirmed that the National Stadium will be ready to host the World Athletics Relays scheduled for May 2-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Minister Kelebeng said renovation of the athletics track, which was the designated competition venue, had been completed and it included replacement of the running track and the facility was now awaiting certification by World Athletics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">He said additional maintenance works such as painting of spectator seats, extension of VIP&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603100685.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 Sport and Arts, Jacob Kelebeng has confirmed that the National Stadium will be ready to host the World Athletics Relays scheduled for May 2-3. Minister Kelebeng said renovation of the athletics track, which was the designated competition venue, had been completed and it included replacement of the running track and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226965,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6687,257,8479,7986,254,9328,5093],"class_list":["post-226964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-ready","tag-relays","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stadium","tag-world"],"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\/226964","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=226964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}