{"id":4411,"date":"2014-07-23T19:16:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T12:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4411"},"modified":"2014-07-23T19:16:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T12:16:49","slug":"botswana-based-zimbabweans-want-to-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-based-zimbabweans-want-to-remain\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana-based Zimbabweans want to remain"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition delegation has found that Zimbabweans who are living in Botswana believe that they are better off living in that country.<\/p>\n

A seven member delegation was dispatched to Gaborone soon after Botswana\u2019s defence minister Ramadeluka Seretse was quoted in the press saying it was now safe for Zimbabweans to return to their country because the situation had improved.<\/p>\n

But delegation leader Joy Mabenge had spoken to Zimbabweans who said despite the challenges they were facing, such as xenophobia, they would rather remain in Botswana. He said: \u2018Of course no one can ever be happy to be away from their home but Zimbabweans said they are better off there. There is a feeling among them that if they return they will be worse off and we think they are right.\u2019…<\/p>\n

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A Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition delegation has found that Zimbabweans who are living in Botswana believe that they are better off living in that country. A seven member delegation was dispatched to Gaborone soon after Botswana\u2019s defence minister Ramadeluka Seretse was quoted in the press saying it was now safe for Zimbabweans to return to […]<\/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":[258,256,4718,2462,257,2466,254,4693,3141,3142],"class_list":["post-4411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-news","tag-ramadeluka-seretse","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-would-rather-remain-in-botswana","tag-zimbabweans-who-are-living-in-botswana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411","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=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/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=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}