{"id":238986,"date":"2026-07-18T19:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-govt-engages-over-200-retired-officers-on-contract\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T19:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:00:58","slug":"botswana-govt-engages-over-200-retired-officers-on-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-govt-engages-over-200-retired-officers-on-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Govt Engages Over 200 Retired Officers On Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Gaborone \u2014 Government, currently, has 253 retired employees employed on contract in the public service, Minister for State President, Defence and Security Mr Moeti Mohwasa has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Answering a question in Parliament on Wednesday, Minister Mohwasa said the number of retired officers appointed on contract by government was at 309 since January 2024, but has since been reduced to cut reliance on retired officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">He said of the 309, 22 were on F scale, 33 on E scale, 57 on D scale while 182, 4 and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607170015.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, currently, has 253 retired employees employed on contract in the public service, Minister for State President, Defence and Security Mr Moeti Mohwasa has said. Answering a question in Parliament on Wednesday, Minister Mohwasa said the number of retired officers appointed on contract by government was at 309 since January 2024, but has [&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":[258,256,4718,2462,7062,7406,4357,257,6749,20247,254],"class_list":["post-238986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-contract","tag-engages","tag-govt","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-retired","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238986","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=238986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238986\/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=238986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}