{"id":239135,"date":"2026-07-20T19:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-gaolathe-defends-govt-tough-economic-measures\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T19:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T17:05:22","slug":"botswana-gaolathe-defends-govt-tough-economic-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-gaolathe-defends-govt-tough-economic-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Gaolathe Defends Govt Tough Economic Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Palapye \u2014 Vice President and Alliance for Progressives (AP) party leader, Mr Ndaba Gaolathe has assured Batswana that government decisions are guided by the welfare of citizens, saying no policy is taken with the intent to disadvantage the people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Speaking at the AP leadership retreat in Palapye on July 18, Mr Gaolathe said every decision made by government was weighed against its benefit to the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;We are not saying that mistakes cannot happen, but had we not taken some of the decisions,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607200413.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>Palapye \u2014 Vice President and Alliance for Progressives (AP) party leader, Mr Ndaba Gaolathe has assured Batswana that government decisions are guided by the welfare of citizens, saying no policy is taken with the intent to disadvantage the people. Speaking at the AP leadership retreat in Palapye on July 18, Mr Gaolathe said every decision [&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":[258,256,4718,2462,7820,3576,49964,4357,7305,257,254,5039],"class_list":["post-239135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-defends","tag-economic","tag-gaolathe","tag-govt","tag-measures","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239135","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=239135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239135\/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=239135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}