{"id":247220,"date":"2026-10-15T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-basimanyana-masire-passes-on\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:00:19","slug":"botswana-basimanyana-masire-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-basimanyana-masire-passes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Basimanyana Masire Passes On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Kanye \u2014 Farming sector across Africa suffers devastating loss as Mr Basimanyana Masire, the younger brother of Botswana&#8217;s second President, the late Sir Ketumile Masire, passed away on October 12, at the age of 88.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Born into the Masire family of Kanye in Goo-Motebejane ward, he was the fifth and youngest of the siblings. Following the early deaths of their parents, Mr Joni Masire and Ms Gabaipone Masire, in the mid-1940s, the children were raised by Sir Ketumile Masire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Representing the family,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610140287.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>Kanye \u2014 Farming sector across Africa suffers devastating loss as Mr Basimanyana Masire, the younger brother of Botswana&#8217;s second President, the late Sir Ketumile Masire, passed away on October 12, at the age of 88. Born into the Masire family of Kanye in Goo-Motebejane ward, he was the fifth and youngest of the siblings. Following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247221,"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":[258,256,55646,4718,2462,11182,257,9871,254],"class_list":["post-247220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-basimanyana","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-masire","tag-news","tag-passes","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\/247220","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=247220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}