{"id":236470,"date":"2026-06-16T05:40:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-residents-reject-private-control-of-paving-stone-mining\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T05:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T03:40:48","slug":"botswana-residents-reject-private-control-of-paving-stone-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-residents-reject-private-control-of-paving-stone-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Residents Reject Private Control of Paving Stone Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Serowe \u2014 Residents of the KHUMASE lands in Serowe have decried the private mining of paving stones in their area, noting that these resources are known to be a cash cow in other countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Speaking to BOPA after handing over a petition to Serowe District Commissioner Ms Angelina Leano-Bakoko on Thursday, destined for the President, the Secretary General of the envisaged KHUMASE trust, Mr Boitshwarelo Tiroyamodimo expressed deep disappointment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">He stated that local natural resources were not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606110032.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>Serowe \u2014 Residents of the KHUMASE lands in Serowe have decried the private mining of paving stones in their area, noting that these resources are known to be a cash cow in other countries. Speaking to BOPA after handing over a petition to Serowe District Commissioner Ms Angelina Leano-Bakoko on Thursday, destined for the President, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":236471,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6877,6477,257,22332,5990,6654,4288,254,6606],"class_list":["post-236470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-control","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-paving","tag-private","tag-reject","tag-residents","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stone"],"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\/236470","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=236470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}