{"id":235298,"date":"2026-06-04T05:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-miss-world-botswana-embraces-nama-culture\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T03:09:18","slug":"botswana-miss-world-botswana-embraces-nama-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-miss-world-botswana-embraces-nama-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Miss World Botswana Embraces Nama Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Lokgwabe \u2014 When Miss World Botswana 2026, Ruth Thomas, arrived at the Nama community in Lokgwabe on Friday, she was dressed in a crisp white suit that reflected modern elegance and sophistication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">However, the real transformation began moments later, when members of the Nama community welcomed her into their cultural fold as part of activities leading up to the Macheng Bushfire Festival which was held on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">With warm smiles and a deep sense of pride, Nama women carefully dressed the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606030611.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>Lokgwabe \u2014 When Miss World Botswana 2026, Ruth Thomas, arrived at the Nama community in Lokgwabe on Friday, she was dressed in a crisp white suit that reflected modern elegance and sophistication. However, the real transformation began moments later, when members of the Nama community welcomed her into their cultural fold as part of activities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235299,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,7915,7574,5436,257,254,5093],"class_list":["post-235298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-culture","tag-embraces","tag-nama","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"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\/235298","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=235298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}