{"id":235605,"date":"2026-06-07T17:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-sport-remains-pillar-of-hope\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:17:10","slug":"botswana-sport-remains-pillar-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-sport-remains-pillar-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Sport Remains Pillar of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Gaborone \u2014 The downturn in Botswana&#8217;s fiscal position, coupled with global instability and international conflicts, continues to exert heavy pressure on local markets and economies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Amidst the economic hardships, he said sport remained a pillar of strength, hope and unity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">This was said by Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) president, Tshepo Sitale during the organisation&#8217;s Annual General Meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Sitale said BNOC was convening at a time when Botswana, like many nations worldwide faces&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606030204.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 The downturn in Botswana&#8217;s fiscal position, coupled with global instability and international conflicts, continues to exert heavy pressure on local markets and economies. Amidst the economic hardships, he said sport remained a pillar of strength, hope and unity. This was said by Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) president, Tshepo Sitale during the organisation&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235606,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,8868,257,10462,7602,254,9325],"class_list":["post-235605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-hope","tag-news","tag-pillar","tag-remains","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sport"],"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\/235605","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=235605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}