{"id":247148,"date":"2026-10-14T23:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-tafisa-congress-to-promote-impact-of-sports-investment\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T23:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T21:00:20","slug":"botswana-tafisa-congress-to-promote-impact-of-sports-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-tafisa-congress-to-promote-impact-of-sports-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Tafisa Congress to Promote Impact of Sports Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Gaborone \u2014 As Botswana prepares to host the 30th TAFISA World Congress in 2027, the Ministry of Sports And Arts is working to establish a satellite account to assist in measuring the economic impact of sporting events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">TAFISA vice president for Africa, Boineelo Hardy said the proposed account would help capture data more accurately and demonstrate the impact of hosting major sporting events, including their value to investors and development partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Hardy said reliable data would help show the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610140416.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 As Botswana prepares to host the 30th TAFISA World Congress in 2027, the Ministry of Sports And Arts is working to establish a satellite account to assist in measuring the economic impact of sporting events. TAFISA vice president for Africa, Boineelo Hardy said the proposed account would help capture data more accurately and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247149,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6634,5064,6018,257,7067,254,8045,55645],"class_list":["post-247148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-congress","tag-impact","tag-investment","tag-news","tag-promote","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sports","tag-tafisa"],"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\/247148","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=247148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}