{"id":230359,"date":"2026-04-14T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-halfway-expansion-signals-economic-confidence\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:50:00","slug":"botswana-halfway-expansion-signals-economic-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-halfway-expansion-signals-economic-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Halfway Expansion Signals Economic Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Maun \u2014 The expansion of Halfway Toyota Ngami in Maun reflects growing private sector confidence in Botswana&#8217;s economic direction and a shared commitment to building a better future for Batswana, Minister for State President, Defence and Security, Moeti Mohwasa, said Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Speaking at the official opening of the new dealership, Minister Mohwasa said the investment shows the private sector is taking its rightful place at the centre of the country&#8217;s development journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;As Botswana transitions&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604140336.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>Maun \u2014 The expansion of Halfway Toyota Ngami in Maun reflects growing private sector confidence in Botswana&#8217;s economic direction and a shared commitment to building a better future for Batswana, Minister for State President, Defence and Security, Moeti Mohwasa, said Friday. Speaking at the official opening of the new dealership, Minister Mohwasa said the investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230360,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,11665,3576,5779,54158,257,10503,254],"class_list":["post-230359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-confidence","tag-economic","tag-expansion","tag-halfway","tag-news","tag-signals","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/230359","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=230359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}