{"id":249219,"date":"2026-11-06T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-veldt-fire-threats-bigger-than-drought-mophuting\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T07:00:52","slug":"botswana-veldt-fire-threats-bigger-than-drought-mophuting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-veldt-fire-threats-bigger-than-drought-mophuting\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Veldt Fire Threats Bigger Than Drought &#8211; Mophuting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Kanye \u2014 Abrupt veldt fires have been described as the second and potentially most devastating threat linked to El Ni\u00f1o after drought and crop failure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">With most parts of the country already under threat, Southern District Beef Farmers Association (SDBFA), Mr Mosimanegape Mophuting has urged farmers to remain vigilant and implement preventive measures, including establishing cut-lines or firebreaks around ranches and paddocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">He said, already fires had been observed in parts of Ngwaketse,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611060088.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 Abrupt veldt fires have been described as the second and potentially most devastating threat linked to El Ni\u00f1o after drought and crop failure. With most parts of the country already under threat, Southern District Beef Farmers Association (SDBFA), Mr Mosimanegape Mophuting has urged farmers to remain vigilant and implement preventive measures, including establishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":249220,"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":[258,256,11292,4718,2462,4787,6600,52951,257,254,7611,55783],"class_list":["post-249219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bigger","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-drought","tag-fire","tag-mophuting","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threats","tag-veldt"],"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\/249219","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=249219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}