{"id":236280,"date":"2026-06-14T05:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-tlokweng-council-rejects-township-upgrade-proposal\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T05:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T03:37:20","slug":"botswana-tlokweng-council-rejects-township-upgrade-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-tlokweng-council-rejects-township-upgrade-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Tlokweng Council Rejects Township Upgrade Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Tlokweng \u2014 Tlokweng District councillors have unanimously rejected a proposal by government to upgrade their village to a township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Debating the proposal on day three of the Tlokweng District Council full session on Wednesday, the councillors shared the same sentiments and cited fears over cultural erosion, loss of land rights under township laws and instead advocated for a &#8216;smart village&#8217; model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Led by Kgosi Puso of Batlokwa, the council advanced reasons how the proposal threatened their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606120126.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>Tlokweng \u2014 Tlokweng District councillors have unanimously rejected a proposal by government to upgrade their village to a township. Debating the proposal on day three of the Tlokweng District Council full session on Wednesday, the councillors shared the same sentiments and cited fears over cultural erosion, loss of land rights under township laws and instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":236281,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6158,257,10809,8440,254,9243,19415,12981],"class_list":["post-236280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-council","tag-news","tag-proposal","tag-rejects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tlokweng","tag-township","tag-upgrade"],"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\/236280","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=236280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}