{"id":228979,"date":"2026-03-30T02:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-lobatse-council-to-maximise-existing-revenue-streams\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T02:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:05:18","slug":"botswana-lobatse-council-to-maximise-existing-revenue-streams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-lobatse-council-to-maximise-existing-revenue-streams\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Lobatse Council to Maximise Existing Revenue Streams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Lobatse \u2014 The Lobatse Town Council aims to maximise existing revenue streams and identify new income sources after a P224 million budget was approved for the 2026\/2027 financial year, falling short of the council&#8217;s estimated requirement of P290 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">During the budget presentation recently, councillors expressed optimism, rallying Lobatse residents to carry their weight through consistent payment of rates and service levies. Thema\/Motswedi ward councillor, Mr Velem Heii, emphasised that such&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603240264.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>Lobatse \u2014 The Lobatse Town Council aims to maximise existing revenue streams and identify new income sources after a P224 million budget was approved for the 2026\/2027 financial year, falling short of the council&#8217;s estimated requirement of P290 million. During the budget presentation recently, councillors expressed optimism, rallying Lobatse residents to carry their weight through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":228980,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6158,13193,12103,21038,257,7343,254,36173],"class_list":["post-228979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-council","tag-existing","tag-lobatse","tag-maximise","tag-news","tag-revenue","tag-south-africa-today","tag-streams"],"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\/228979","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=228979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}