{"id":5025,"date":"2014-08-28T18:59:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2014-08-28T18:59:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:59:11","slug":"botswana-has-become-less-inviting-yet-to-be-released-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-has-become-less-inviting-yet-to-be-released-report\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Botswana has become less inviting\u2019 \u2013 yet to be released report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardly a month after former president, Festus Mogae, belched balls of belly fire about Botswana becoming less hospitable than it used to be, a report prepared for the British High Commission reveals that such sentiment is shared by some other people in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Telling Botswana\u2019s rags-to-riches story at the Africa Leadership Forum in Tanzania on July 31, Mogae said the country prospered because it recognised the need for symbiotic existence with others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used professionals from all countries, including Tanzania here and we trained our people here, and in South Africa and in Nigeria and in Ghana but that is being reversed by our government,\u201d said the former president, at one point referring to his successor\u2019s government with \u201cregime\u201d, a term characteristically used to refer to autocratic administrations&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Botswana News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gazettebw.com\/?p=8828\" 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>Hardly a month after former president, Festus Mogae, belched balls of belly fire about Botswana becoming less hospitable than it used to be, a report prepared for the British High Commission reveals that such sentiment is shared by some other people in the country. Telling Botswana\u2019s rags-to-riches story at the Africa Leadership Forum in Tanzania [&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":[258,256,3800,4718,2462,3798,3797,3799,257,254,4693],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-autocratic-administrations","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-british-high-commission","tag-festus-mogae","tag-less-inviting","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","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=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/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=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}