{"id":235388,"date":"2026-06-05T05:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-athletes-doping-case-august-10\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T03:12:04","slug":"botswana-athletes-doping-case-august-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-athletes-doping-case-august-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Athletes Doping Case August 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Gaborone \u2014 High Court Judge Justice Itumeleng Segopolo has confirmed that the legal battle involving four provisionally banned Botswana track athletes will be heard on August 10, following an emergency hearing called to address public confusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The case was originally scheduled for June 1 but failed to proceed because it was omitted from the official court roll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The scheduling glitch triggered a wave of viral social media videos condemning the local justice system, forcing the court to call an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606040042.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 High Court Judge Justice Itumeleng Segopolo has confirmed that the legal battle involving four provisionally banned Botswana track athletes will be heard on August 10, following an emergency hearing called to address public confusion. The case was originally scheduled for June 1 but failed to proceed because it was omitted from the official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235389,"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":[258,256,7884,8060,4718,2462,6683,6595,257,254],"class_list":["post-235388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-athletes","tag-august","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-case","tag-doping","tag-news","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\/235388","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=235388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}