{"id":234705,"date":"2026-05-28T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-national-skateboarder-to-represent-botswana-in-italy-and-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:56:16","slug":"botswana-national-skateboarder-to-represent-botswana-in-italy-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-national-skateboarder-to-represent-botswana-in-italy-and-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: National Skateboarder to Represent Botswana in Italy and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Gaborone \u2014 As athletics continue to carry Botswana&#8217;s flag with pride and racket sports such as tennis steadily gaining momentum, a quieter revolution is taking shape on skate ramps through national skateboarders such as Theo Setsetse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Despite Botswana&#8217;s skateboarding scene operating largely on the margins, with limited infrastructure, community support and international visibility, skateboarders like Setsetse are consistently hard-flipping, nose-grinding and board-sliding against the barriers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605280452.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 As athletics continue to carry Botswana&#8217;s flag with pride and racket sports such as tennis steadily gaining momentum, a quieter revolution is taking shape on skate ramps through national skateboarders such as Theo Setsetse. Despite Botswana&#8217;s skateboarding scene operating largely on the margins, with limited infrastructure, community support and international visibility, skateboarders like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234706,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,7681,6687,257,7704,1048,54486,254],"class_list":["post-234705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-italy","tag-national","tag-news","tag-represent","tag-russia","tag-skateboarder","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\/234705","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=234705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}