{"id":237168,"date":"2026-06-23T05:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-first-lady-courts-bahumagadi-for-support-mpepu\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T05:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:58:05","slug":"botswana-first-lady-courts-bahumagadi-for-support-mpepu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-first-lady-courts-bahumagadi-for-support-mpepu\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: First Lady Courts Bahumagadi for Support Mpepu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Gaborone \u2014 First Lady Kaone Boko, has called on Bahumagadi to help tackle challenges facing children, saying their involvement is essential to the success of the Mpepu Programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Ms Boko made the appeal while responding to dikgosi after updating the Ntlo Ya Dikgosi on Mpepu initiative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Derived from the cultural practice of securely carrying a child on the back while a mother works, Mpepu reflects care, protection, responsibility and constant presence. The concept ensures that a child is never&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606170661.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 First Lady Kaone Boko, has called on Bahumagadi to help tackle challenges facing children, saying their involvement is essential to the success of the Mpepu Programme. Ms Boko made the appeal while responding to dikgosi after updating the Ntlo Ya Dikgosi on Mpepu initiative. Derived from the cultural practice of securely carrying a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237169,"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":[258,256,54679,4718,2462,8732,6669,54680,257,254,6096],"class_list":["post-237168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bahumagadi","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-courts","tag-lady","tag-mpepu","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support"],"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\/237168","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=237168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}