{"id":233502,"date":"2026-05-17T04:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-lefesto-newsboy-cap-look\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T04:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:27:25","slug":"botswana-lefesto-newsboy-cap-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-lefesto-newsboy-cap-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Lefesto Newsboy Cap Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Gaborone \u2014 While many will remember former president Dr Festus Mogae for his economic reforms and his legacy in the fight against HIV\/AIDS, others will forever cherish memories of his stylish off-duty fashion sense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Away from the image of a statesman in suits, LeFesto, as Batswana affectionately called him, became known for his relaxed denim-on-denim outfits paired with stylish newsboy caps, commonly referred to in street lingo as &#8220;stapora caps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The distinctive look made him stand out and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605130352.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 many will remember former president Dr Festus Mogae for his economic reforms and his legacy in the fight against HIV\/AIDS, others will forever cherish memories of his stylish off-duty fashion sense. Away from the image of a statesman in suits, LeFesto, as Batswana affectionately called him, became known for his relaxed denim-on-denim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233503,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,15286,54410,257,54411,254],"class_list":["post-233502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-cap","tag-lefesto","tag-news","tag-newsboy","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\/233502","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=233502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}