{"id":230989,"date":"2026-04-22T03:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-btc-marathon-brings-life-and-vibrancy-to-francistown\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:30:01","slug":"botswana-btc-marathon-brings-life-and-vibrancy-to-francistown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-btc-marathon-brings-life-and-vibrancy-to-francistown\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Btc Marathon Brings Life and Vibrancy to Francistown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Gaborone \u2014 The 5th Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) Francistown Marathon has been hailed for bringing life, colour and vibrancy to the city and affirming its growing reputation as a centre of excellence in sport and community engagement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Speaking at the end of the event held on Saturday, Francistown mayor, Gaone Majere said the marathon had become more than just a race, but now an integral part of the city&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;Each year, it strengthens social cohesion, promotes healthy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604210240.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>Gaborone \u2014 The 5th Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) Francistown Marathon has been hailed for bringing life, colour and vibrancy to the city and affirming its growing reputation as a centre of excellence in sport and community engagement. Speaking at the end of the event held on Saturday, Francistown mayor, Gaone Majere said the marathon had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230990,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6561,16755,21204,6448,5150,257,254,54222],"class_list":["post-230989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-brings","tag-btc","tag-francistown","tag-life","tag-marathon","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vibrancy"],"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\/230989","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=230989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}