{"id":237566,"date":"2026-06-27T06:06:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-government-revives-choral-music-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T06:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:06:04","slug":"botswana-government-revives-choral-music-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-government-revives-choral-music-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Government Revives Choral Music in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Gaborone \u2014 Government has reinstated choral music competitions for state owned and private owned primary and secondary schools starting this academic year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Speaking at the vocal music programme launch held at Northside Primary School in Gaborone on Tuesday, Assistant Minister of Child Welfare and Basic Education, Justin Hunyepa, said the initiative comes as part of government&#8217;s broader initiatives to promote arts and culture among learners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Highlighting the benefits of the initiative, Hunyepa&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606240451.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 Government has reinstated choral music competitions for state owned and private owned primary and secondary schools starting this academic year. Speaking at the vocal music programme launch held at Northside Primary School in Gaborone on Tuesday, Assistant Minister of Child Welfare and Basic Education, Justin Hunyepa, said the initiative comes as part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237567,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,11371,6427,6662,257,16386,6756,254],"class_list":["post-237566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-choral","tag-government","tag-music","tag-news","tag-revives","tag-schools","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\/237566","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=237566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}