{"id":248997,"date":"2026-11-03T23:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T21:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-sona-2026-boko-walking-a-tightrope\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T23:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T21:30:05","slug":"botswana-sona-2026-boko-walking-a-tightrope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-sona-2026-boko-walking-a-tightrope\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: SONA 2026 &#8211; Boko Walking a Tightrope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">All eyes would be on President Duma Boko on the 09 November 2026 when he delivers the State of the Nation (SONA) address in the midst of a subdued economy which has attracted heavy criticism from sections of society.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"75\">Boko steps to the podium at the time where the country is facing fiscal pressures emanating from weaker diamond sales and Foot and Mouth Disease that crippled the beef industry etc. Economic observers say the country is a precarious situation and the worst could still occur. So,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611030466.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>All eyes would be on President Duma Boko on the 09 November 2026 when he delivers the State of the Nation (SONA) address in the midst of a subdued economy which has attracted heavy criticism from sections of society. Boko steps to the podium at the time where the country is facing fiscal pressures emanating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":248998,"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":[258,256,4264,4718,2462,257,7011,254,49718,11393],"class_list":["post-248997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-news","tag-sona","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tightrope","tag-walking"],"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\/248997","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=248997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}