{"id":3884,"date":"2014-07-10T14:35:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T07:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2014-07-10T14:35:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T07:35:36","slug":"botswana-closes-out-zimbabwean-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-closes-out-zimbabwean-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana closes out Zimbabwean refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana &#8211; Minister of Defence, Justice and Security, Ramadeluka Seretse is quoted claiming the political environment in Zimbabwe is safer for them to stay in their country.<\/p>\n<p>In the future we are likely to see a situation where Zimbabwean nationals will not be given refugee status Seretse said.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that most of them were given asylum status during Zimbabwe\u2019s political crisis which led to people fleeing the country&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Botswana News\" href=\"http:\/\/nehandaradio.com\/2014\/07\/09\/botswana-closes-zimbabwean-refugees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana &#8211; Minister of Defence, Justice and Security, Ramadeluka Seretse is quoted claiming the political environment in Zimbabwe is safer for them to stay in their country. In the future we are likely to see a situation where Zimbabwean nationals will not be given refugee status Seretse said. He stated that most of them were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,2465,4718,2462,257,2466,2464,254,4693,4686,2463],"class_list":["post-3884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asylum-status","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-news","tag-ramadeluka-seretse","tag-refugee-status","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwean-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}