{"id":227052,"date":"2026-03-16T13:37:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-police-warns-motorists-over-lesoma-kazungula-truck-congestion\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:37:58","slug":"botswana-police-warns-motorists-over-lesoma-kazungula-truck-congestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-police-warns-motorists-over-lesoma-kazungula-truck-congestion\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Police Warns Motorists Over Lesoma-Kazungula Truck Congestion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Kazungula \u2014 Motorists have been warned to maintain vigilance in respect to the truck congestion from Lesoma to Kazungula covering a 10-kilometre stretch on the A33 road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">In an interview, Chobe District senior traffic officer Superintendent Agripa Gambule attributed the congestion to a technical breakdown of a scanner at Zambian Revenue Authority (ZRA) at the Kazungula One Stop Border Post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">He said haulage trucks carrying goods headed up north to Zambia, Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603100037.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 Motorists have been warned to maintain vigilance in respect to the truck congestion from Lesoma to Kazungula covering a 10-kilometre stretch on the A33 road. In an interview, Chobe District senior traffic officer Superintendent Agripa Gambule attributed the congestion to a technical breakdown of a scanner at Zambian Revenue Authority (ZRA) at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":227053,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,16101,53925,9709,257,662,254,7744,6853],"class_list":["post-227052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-congestion","tag-lesomakazungula","tag-motorists","tag-news","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-truck","tag-warns"],"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\/227052","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=227052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}