{"id":233309,"date":"2026-05-15T04:22:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-the-witty-and-humorous-mogae\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:22:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:22:44","slug":"botswana-the-witty-and-humorous-mogae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-the-witty-and-humorous-mogae\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: The Witty and Humorous Mogae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Gaborone \u2014 While he embodied decorum through humble and measured language in public statements, dignity reflecting the stature of his role, professionalism and composure during difficult times, Dr Festus Mogae, was witty with a charismatic personality contrasting the supreme prestige of his office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Below are a few insights highlighting his lighter side:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">\u00b7 &#8220;I was not willing to lose elections on behalf of gays. However, they were not arrested, they were not arrested during my tenure,&#8221; bold&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605130367.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 While he embodied decorum through humble and measured language in public statements, dignity reflecting the stature of his role, professionalism and composure during difficult times, Dr Festus Mogae, was witty with a charismatic personality contrasting the supreme prestige of his office. Below are a few insights highlighting his lighter side: \u00b7 &#8220;I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233310,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,54395,9548,257,254,54394],"class_list":["post-233309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-humorous","tag-mogae","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-witty"],"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\/233309","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=233309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}