{"id":4744,"date":"2014-08-09T11:48:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T04:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2014-08-09T11:49:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T04:49:03","slug":"foul-play-suspected-in-botswana-leaders-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/foul-play-suspected-in-botswana-leaders-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Foul play suspected in Botswana leader&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Constitutional law expert Professor Shadrack Gutto says the car accident in which Botswana Movement for Democracy President Gomolemo Motswaledi was killed, is likely to be an assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Motswaledi who was set to contest in 2014 general election died last week minutes after crossing the border from South Africa to Botswana.<\/p>\n<p>Staunch supporters including the movement&#8217;s prominent members suspect foul play&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Botswana News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/news\/a\/009d120044fc38c59a6cffe17c393fce\/Foul-play-suspected-in-Botswana-leader%27s-death\" 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>Constitutional law expert Professor Shadrack Gutto says the car accident in which Botswana Movement for Democracy President Gomolemo Motswaledi was killed, is likely to be an assassination. Motswaledi who was set to contest in 2014 general election died last week minutes after crossing the border from South Africa to Botswana. Staunch supporters including the movement&#8217;s [&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":[258,256,3502,4718,2462,3500,257,3501,254,4693],"class_list":["post-4744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assassination","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-movement-for-democracy","tag-news","tag-president-gomolemo-motswaledi","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744","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=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/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=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}