{"id":230003,"date":"2026-04-10T02:28:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswanas-president-boko-to-officially-open-zitf-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:28:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:28:57","slug":"botswanas-president-boko-to-officially-open-zitf-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswanas-president-boko-to-officially-open-zitf-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana&#8217;s President Boko to Officially Open ZITF 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">President Duma Boko of Botswana is expected to officially open this year&#8217;s edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Addressing the media during a post-Cabinet briefing, Information Minister Soda Zhemu confirmed Boko&#8217;s scheduled visit for the country&#8217;s premier trade and investment showcase running from April 20-25, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;The 66th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair will run from 20 to 25 April 2026, under the theme, &#8216;Connected Economies, Competitive&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604090017.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>President Duma Boko of Botswana is expected to officially open this year&#8217;s edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) in Bulawayo. Addressing the media during a post-Cabinet briefing, Information Minister Soda Zhemu confirmed Boko&#8217;s scheduled visit for the country&#8217;s premier trade and investment showcase running from April 20-25, 2026. &#8220;The 66th edition of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230004,"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":[258,256,4264,2462,10477,257,5982,5983,2450,254,2459],"class_list":["post-230003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko","tag-botswana-news","tag-botswanas","tag-news","tag-officially","tag-open","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zitf"],"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\/230003","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=230003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}