{"id":236008,"date":"2026-06-11T17:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-rising-costs-hit-informal-traders\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T17:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:32:29","slug":"botswana-rising-costs-hit-informal-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-rising-costs-hit-informal-traders\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Rising Costs Hit Informal Traders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Francistown \u2014 As inflation continues to push up the costs of goods and services, informal traders in Francistown say they are a facing increasing pressure in keeping their businesses afloat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The traders have expressed disappointment and frustration on how the rising prices is affecting them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">In an interview, Mr Gala Kgosiemang who is in the business of selling clothes said inflation was eating into his profits as he now buys stock at higher prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606110542.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>Francistown \u2014 As inflation continues to push up the costs of goods and services, informal traders in Francistown say they are a facing increasing pressure in keeping their businesses afloat. The traders have expressed disappointment and frustration on how the rising prices is affecting them. In an interview, Mr Gala Kgosiemang who is in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":236009,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,11509,8032,8353,257,6678,254,8583],"class_list":["post-236008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-costs","tag-hit","tag-informal","tag-news","tag-rising","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traders"],"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\/236008","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=236008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}