{"id":240487,"date":"2026-08-06T19:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-batho-ba-metsi-honours-okavango-delta-custodians\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:45:29","slug":"botswana-batho-ba-metsi-honours-okavango-delta-custodians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-batho-ba-metsi-honours-okavango-delta-custodians\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Batho Ba Metsi Honours Okavango Delta Custodians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Gaborone \u2014 The pristine, lush waterways, greenery, flora and fauna of the Okavango, the world&#8217;s largest inland delta and the 1000th UNESCO Heritage Site, is a major tourism attraction, but the people living there as custodians of this environment seldom have their voices heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">This was the rationale behind the, <em>Batho Ba Metsi: A Journey to Meet the People of the Water,<\/em> documentary film directed by Moabi Mogorosi, to feature the lives and resilience of the people who live in one of the world&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608060083.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 pristine, lush waterways, greenery, flora and fauna of the Okavango, the world&#8217;s largest inland delta and the 1000th UNESCO Heritage Site, is a major tourism attraction, but the people living there as custodians of this environment seldom have their voices heard. This was the rationale behind the, Batho Ba Metsi: A Journey [&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":[258,256,55075,4718,2462,18296,7929,9437,55076,257,21797,254],"class_list":["post-240487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-batho","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-custodians","tag-delta","tag-honours","tag-metsi","tag-news","tag-okavango","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240487","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=240487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240487\/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=240487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}