{"id":247403,"date":"2026-10-17T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T05:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/southern-africa-botswana-to-host-southern-african-trading-hub-for-dangote-refinery-ipo\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T07:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T05:30:19","slug":"southern-africa-botswana-to-host-southern-african-trading-hub-for-dangote-refinery-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/southern-africa-botswana-to-host-southern-african-trading-hub-for-dangote-refinery-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Botswana to Host Southern African Trading Hub for Dangote Refinery IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Botswana has been selected to host the Southern African component of the planned initial public offering for Dangote Petroleum Refinery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">This move gives Botswana a central role in connecting investors across Southern African markets to the proposed share sale. The refinery&#8217;s promoters extended the IPO timeline by two weeks, to October 27, to establish structures allowing wider African investor participation. Collen Tapfumaneyi, chairman of the Southern African Development Community (SADC)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610160744.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>Botswana has been selected to host the Southern African component of the planned initial public offering for Dangote Petroleum Refinery. This move gives Botswana a central role in connecting investors across Southern African markets to the proposed share sale. The refinery&#8217;s promoters extended the IPO timeline by two weeks, to October 27, to establish structures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247404,"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":[258,256,4380,4718,2462,6698,6937,7448,20413,257,17220,254,7153,9986],"class_list":["post-247403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-dangote","tag-host","tag-hub","tag-ipo","tag-news","tag-refinery","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-trading"],"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\/247403","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=247403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}