{"id":238332,"date":"2026-07-09T06:38:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-first-lady-launches-programme-to-honour-54-lives-lost\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:38:51","slug":"botswana-first-lady-launches-programme-to-honour-54-lives-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-first-lady-launches-programme-to-honour-54-lives-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: First Lady Launches Programme to Honour 54 Lives Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Gaborone \u2014 The Office of the First Lady has announced the launch of the National Healing, Remembrance and Closure Programme, a national initiative dedicated to honouring the memory of the 54 Batswana who lost their lives in the 2015 Matsha Community College truck accident and the 2024 Mmamatlakala bus tragedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Launched in collaboration with national stakeholders, the programme reaffirms the country&#8217;s commitment that every life matters and every family matters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">It combines remembrance with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607080393.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 The Office of the First Lady has announced the launch of the National Healing, Remembrance and Closure Programme, a national initiative dedicated to honouring the memory of the 54 Batswana who lost their lives in the 2015 Matsha Community College truck accident and the 2024 Mmamatlakala bus tragedy. Launched in collaboration with national [&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":[258,256,4718,2462,10998,6669,5957,8485,7408,257,7715,254],"class_list":["post-238332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-honour","tag-lady","tag-launches","tag-lives","tag-lost","tag-news","tag-programme","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238332","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=238332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238332\/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=238332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}