{"id":4247,"date":"2014-07-18T12:04:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T05:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2014-07-18T12:04:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T05:04:33","slug":"botswana-loses-over-2000-people-to-suicide-since-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-loses-over-2000-people-to-suicide-since-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Loses over 2,000 People to Suicide Since 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone &#8211; Some 2,389 people have committed suicide in the diamond-rich Botswana since 2007, according to the country\u2019s Defence, Justice and Security Minister, Dikgakgamatso Seretse.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing parliament on Wednesday, Seretse said that there were 313 suicides in 2007, 325 in 2008, 324 in 2009, 338 in 2010, 310 in 2011, 333 in 2012, 331 in 2013 and 115 from Jan. 6 to July 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister attributed the causes of the high number of suicide in the southern African nation to intimate partner related killing, illness, family misunderstandings and financial problems, among others&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Botswana News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bellanaija.com\/2014\/07\/17\/botswana-loses-over-2000-people-to-suicide-since-2007\/\" 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>Gaborone &#8211; Some 2,389 people have committed suicide in the diamond-rich Botswana since 2007, according to the country\u2019s Defence, Justice and Security Minister, Dikgakgamatso Seretse. Addressing parliament on Wednesday, Seretse said that there were 313 suicides in 2007, 325 in 2008, 324 in 2009, 338 in 2010, 310 in 2011, 333 in 2012, 331 in [&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":[258,256,4718,2462,2922,2858,2924,257,254,4693,2923],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-committed-suicide","tag-gaborone","tag-high-number-of-suicide","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-suicides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","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=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/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=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}