{"id":34152,"date":"2026-05-10T13:53:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34152"},"modified":"2026-05-10T13:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:53:44","slug":"botswana-democratic-party-mourns-former-president-festus-mogae","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/botswana-democratic-party-mourns-former-president-festus-mogae\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Democratic Party mourns former President festus Mogae"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) has expressed profound sorrow following the death of Botswana\u2019s former President, Festus Mogae.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He died on Friday at the age of 86.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mogae also served as Governor of the Bank of Botswana, Member of Parliament, Finance Minister, and Vice President of Botswana.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The party has praised him for helping to protect and grow Botswana\u2019s economy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The BDP\u2019s executive secretary Ame Makoba says, \u201cPresident Balopi has gone on to laud Mogae for having respected the process of democracy in that he oversaw and ensured peaceful transitions of leadership both at state and at party during his time. He has sent a message of condolences to Mma Nametso, former first lady, the Mogae family and to the nation at large. It is expected that the party will pay tributes to Mogae in the days to come.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32599,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-34152","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The party has praised him for helping to protect and grow Botswana\u2019s economy.","published_date":"","news_description":"The party has praised him for helping to protect and grow Botswana\u2019s economy.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34153,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34152\/revisions\/34153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}