{"id":241924,"date":"2026-08-23T08:18:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-lobatse-sets-sights-on-regional-trade-centre\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T08:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:18:58","slug":"botswana-lobatse-sets-sights-on-regional-trade-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-lobatse-sets-sights-on-regional-trade-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Lobatse Sets Sights On Regional Trade Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"97\">Lobatse \u2014 The historic town of Lobatse is poised to chart a new economic path towards becoming a regional investment hub due to its geographic positioning, infrastructure, transportation, institutional presence, and heritage trail. This was said by Lobatse deputy district commissioner, Dr Malebogo Rathedi, during the inaugural Lobatse Economic Forum 2026 organised by Ba Bandleng Group (BBG). She said government had demonstrated confidence in Lobatse&#8217;s future by designating the town as Special&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608200347.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>Lobatse \u2014 The historic town of Lobatse is poised to chart a new economic path towards becoming a regional investment hub due to its geographic positioning, infrastructure, transportation, institutional presence, and heritage trail. This was said by Lobatse deputy district commissioner, Dr Malebogo Rathedi, during the inaugural Lobatse Economic Forum 2026 organised by Ba Bandleng [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,9881,12103,257,4268,7123,19469,254,5979],"class_list":["post-241924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-centre","tag-lobatse","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-sets","tag-sights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241924","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=241924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}