{"id":250565,"date":"2026-11-15T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-legislators-express-mixed-reactions-to-sona\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T20:30:10","slug":"botswana-legislators-express-mixed-reactions-to-sona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-legislators-express-mixed-reactions-to-sona\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Legislators Express Mixed Reactions to SONA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Gaborone \u2014 Legislators have expressed mixed reactions towards President Advocate Duma Boko&#8217;s State-of -the-Nation Address (SONA). Leader of the Opposition, Mr Dumelang Saleshando said promises made during the previous address remained unfulfilled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">He said, as was the case in the previous address, the President had made promises to address challenges facing the country, particularly in the health sector, but little had changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">He recalled that during the previous public health emergency,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611110169.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 Legislators have expressed mixed reactions towards President Advocate Duma Boko&#8217;s State-of -the-Nation Address (SONA). Leader of the Opposition, Mr Dumelang Saleshando said promises made during the previous address remained unfulfilled. He said, as was the case in the previous address, the President had made promises to address challenges facing the country, particularly in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":250566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660448:31a48c05618c409baa1381e7ff99f807:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,10034,13512,8467,257,18072,7011,254],"class_list":["post-250565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-express","tag-legislators","tag-mixed","tag-news","tag-reactions","tag-sona","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660448:31a48c05618c409baa1381e7ff99f807:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250565","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=250565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}