{"id":247008,"date":"2026-10-13T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-ntsima-challenges-businesses-to-expand-into-export-market\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T04:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:00:21","slug":"botswana-ntsima-challenges-businesses-to-expand-into-export-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-ntsima-challenges-businesses-to-expand-into-export-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Ntsima Challenges Businesses to Expand Into Export Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"84\">Palapye \u2014 The Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Tiroeaone Ntsima, has challenged local businesses to utilise domestic market as a testing ground to refine their products before venturing into the highly competitive global arena. Speaking at the inaugural Made in BW &#8211; Sold to the World Expo 2026 which was held at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) in Palapye on Thursday, Minister Ntsima emphasised that becoming an exporting nation required practical business&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610120523.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>Palapye \u2014 The Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Tiroeaone Ntsima, has challenged local businesses to utilise domestic market as a testing ground to refine their products before venturing into the highly competitive global arena. Speaking at the inaugural Made in BW &#8211; Sold to the World Expo 2026 which was held at the Botswana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247009,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6817,6977,9873,10346,4356,257,52787,254],"class_list":["post-247008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-businesses","tag-challenges","tag-expand","tag-export","tag-market","tag-news","tag-ntsima","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/247008","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=247008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}