{"id":237499,"date":"2026-06-26T18:04:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-new-era-for-public-schools-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:04:59","slug":"botswana-new-era-for-public-schools-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-new-era-for-public-schools-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: New Era for Public Schools Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"65\">Gaborone \u2014 For decades, the rhythm of morning assembly across schools countrywide has played out against a backdrop of quiet decay.A generation of learners have walked through school gates to face the same stubborn realities of blistering paint peeling off classroom walls like old sunburns, teacher housing wearing the scars of prolonged neglect and school grounds desperately holding onto the dreams of the children who occupy them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Yet, within these fragile spaces, magic happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Out of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606260045.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 For decades, the rhythm of morning assembly across schools countrywide has played out against a backdrop of quiet decay.A generation of learners have walked through school gates to face the same stubborn realities of blistering paint peeling off classroom walls like old sunburns, teacher housing wearing the scars of prolonged neglect and school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00341266:b01689945898f32be30aeb5837977aad:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,11475,9864,257,5751,6756,254],"class_list":["post-237499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-era","tag-infrastructure","tag-news","tag-public","tag-schools","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00341266:b01689945898f32be30aeb5837977aad:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237499","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=237499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}