{"id":236567,"date":"2026-06-17T05:43:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-regions-await-sports-equipment-approval-requests\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T05:43:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:43:54","slug":"botswana-regions-await-sports-equipment-approval-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-regions-await-sports-equipment-approval-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Regions Await Sports Equipment Approval Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Francistown \u2014 Although school sports preparations have begun, regions are still waiting for the ministry to approve their equipment requests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Ministry of Sport and Arts, alongside that of of Child Welfare and Basic Education, officially elaunched school sports and arts in Lobatse earlier this year, with the primary phase focusing on basic training, physical education, and inter-house competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">North East Regional Director of Operations, Labane Mokgosi, said the ministry had instructed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606160213.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 Although school sports preparations have begun, regions are still waiting for the ministry to approve their equipment requests. The Ministry of Sport and Arts, alongside that of of Child Welfare and Basic Education, officially elaunched school sports and arts in Lobatse earlier this year, with the primary phase focusing on basic training, physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":236568,"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":[258,256,8113,22443,4718,2462,12534,257,6897,8035,254,8045],"class_list":["post-236567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approval","tag-await","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-equipment","tag-news","tag-regions","tag-requests","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sports"],"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\/236567","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=236567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}