{"id":237880,"date":"2026-07-01T06:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-boko-engages-dikgosi-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T06:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:13:27","slug":"botswana-boko-engages-dikgosi-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-boko-engages-dikgosi-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Boko Engages Dikgosi &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Gaborone \u2014 President Advocate Duma Boko (left) and Ntlo ya Dikgosi chairperson, Kgosi Malope II of Bangwaketse after the former&#8217;s meeting with Dikgosi in Gaborone yesterday to discuss matters of national importance. President Boko and Dikgosi discussed issues relating to gender-based violence, which remains a significant challenge in the society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Therefore, the President urged Dikgosi to come up with interventions to address the GBV scourge. He also encouraged them to promote responsible&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606300045.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 President Advocate Duma Boko (left) and Ntlo ya Dikgosi chairperson, Kgosi Malope II of Bangwaketse after the former&#8217;s meeting with Dikgosi in Gaborone yesterday to discuss matters of national importance. President Boko and Dikgosi discussed issues relating to gender-based violence, which remains a significant challenge in the society. Therefore, the President urged Dikgosi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237881,"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":[258,256,42655,4264,4718,2462,21518,7406,257,254],"class_list":["post-237880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-boko","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-dikgosi","tag-engages","tag-news","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\/237880","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=237880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}