{"id":237404,"date":"2026-06-25T18:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-host-air-race-for-good-cause\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:02:56","slug":"botswana-host-air-race-for-good-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-host-air-race-for-good-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Host Air Race for Good Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Gaborone \u2014 Elite pilots from around the world will descend upon the Makgadikgadi Pans from June 26 to 29 for the Race for the Rhinos Aviation Event aimed at raising funds to relocate 13 white rhinos donated by South Africa and also to establish a new conservation site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Hosted at Mosu Airfield, the four-day event, which returns after a seven-year hiatus, will feature a two-day precision air race involving 22 aviators flying 11 registered aircraft along a route through Nata, Gweta, Orapa and Kubu&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606250602.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 Elite pilots from around the world will descend upon the Makgadikgadi Pans from June 26 to 29 for the Race for the Rhinos Aviation Event aimed at raising funds to relocate 13 white rhinos donated by South Africa and also to establish a new conservation site. Hosted at Mosu Airfield, the four-day event, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237405,"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":[258,256,7832,4718,2462,6677,6937,257,5146,254],"class_list":["post-237404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-good","tag-host","tag-news","tag-race","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/237404","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=237404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}