{"id":242831,"date":"2026-09-01T08:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-low-loan-recovery-threatens-p59m-youth-fund\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:39:25","slug":"botswana-low-loan-recovery-threatens-p59m-youth-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-low-loan-recovery-threatens-p59m-youth-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Low Loan Recovery Threatens P59m Youth Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Molepolole \u2014 Low repayment rates continue to undermine the P59 million Youth Development Fund (YDF) in the Mogoditshane-Thamaga district, with just P300, 000 recovered from 685 funded ventures since 2009. Mogoditshane-Thamaga district commissioner, Ms Motlatsi Madisa disclosed the shortfall during a capacity-building workshop for 150 local YDF beneficiaries at Mogoditshane Community Hall last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Ms Madisa attributed the capital loss to unauthorised relocations and high business closure&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609010044.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>Molepolole \u2014 Low repayment rates continue to undermine the P59 million Youth Development Fund (YDF) in the Mogoditshane-Thamaga district, with just P300, 000 recovered from 685 funded ventures since 2009. Mogoditshane-Thamaga district commissioner, Ms Motlatsi Madisa disclosed the shortfall during a capacity-building workshop for 150 local YDF beneficiaries at Mogoditshane Community Hall last Friday. Ms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":242832,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,5111,8828,257,55320,9918,254,10413,6276],"class_list":["post-242831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-fund","tag-loan","tag-news","tag-p59m","tag-recovery","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threatens","tag-youth"],"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\/242831","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=242831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}