{"id":238279,"date":"2026-07-08T06:35:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-gabs-open-grows-bigger-and-better\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T06:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:35:05","slug":"botswana-gabs-open-grows-bigger-and-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-gabs-open-grows-bigger-and-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Gabs Open Grows Bigger and Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Gaborone \u2014 Organisers of the annual Gabs Open International Karate Championships are working round the clock to deliver a tournament of the World Karate Federation (WKF) flagship championships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Speaking on the sidelines of the two-day 16th edition of the tournament hosted at the University of Botswana Indoor Sports Centre, one of the organisers, Sensei Ofentse Bakwadi said the tournament had the potential to become one of the continent&#8217;s premier karate competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Sensei Bakwadi said the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607070486.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 Organisers of the annual Gabs Open International Karate Championships are working round the clock to deliver a tournament of the World Karate Federation (WKF) flagship championships. Speaking on the sidelines of the two-day 16th edition of the tournament hosted at the University of Botswana Indoor Sports Centre, one of the organisers, Sensei Ofentse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,11292,4718,2462,8804,9886,257,5983,254],"class_list":["post-238279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bigger","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-grows","tag-news","tag-open","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238279","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=238279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}