{"id":228922,"date":"2026-03-29T14:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-councillors-reject-proposed-liquor-act\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T14:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:04:46","slug":"botswana-councillors-reject-proposed-liquor-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-councillors-reject-proposed-liquor-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Councillors Reject Proposed Liquor Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Kanye \u2014 Kanye District councillors have unanimously rejected government&#8217;s proposed amendment to the Liquor Act, which seeks to abolish liquor control authorities and transfer their powers to a director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Under the proposal, the director would then delegate the powers to council secretaries or town clerks. The decision followed a presentation by Assistant Minister of Trade and Entrepreneurship, Mr Baratiwa Mathoothe, during a recent Kanye District Full Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Mr Mathoothe explained that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603240265.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>Kanye \u2014 Kanye District councillors have unanimously rejected government&#8217;s proposed amendment to the Liquor Act, which seeks to abolish liquor control authorities and transfer their powers to a director. Under the proposal, the director would then delegate the powers to council secretaries or town clerks. The decision followed a presentation by Assistant Minister of Trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":228923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601331:d661a1fee17398092992121412653ed6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[6991,258,256,4718,2462,16082,12540,257,8487,6654,254],"class_list":["post-228922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-act","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-councillors","tag-liquor","tag-news","tag-proposed","tag-reject","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601331:d661a1fee17398092992121412653ed6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228922","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=228922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}