{"id":243000,"date":"2026-09-02T20:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-government-takes-firm-action-against-illicit-drugs\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T20:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T18:44:04","slug":"botswana-government-takes-firm-action-against-illicit-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-government-takes-firm-action-against-illicit-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Government Takes Firm Action Against Illicit Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Otse \u2014 In an effort to safeguard families, protect communities and secure the future of its people government remains committed to taking firm action against those who produce, supply and profit from illicit drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">This was revealed by Assistant Minister for State President, Defence and Security, Ms Maipelo Mophuting-Dikoloti during the official opening of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) narcotics investigation and enforcement course at the Otse Police College on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The six-month&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609020038.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>Otse \u2014 In an effort to safeguard families, protect communities and secure the future of its people government remains committed to taking firm action against those who produce, supply and profit from illicit drugs. This was revealed by Assistant Minister for State President, Defence and Security, Ms Maipelo Mophuting-Dikoloti during the official opening of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":243001,"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":[6394,258,256,4718,2462,6614,7559,6427,9926,257,254,5056],"class_list":["post-243000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-drugs","tag-firm","tag-government","tag-illicit","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takes"],"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\/243000","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=243000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}