{"id":19063,"date":"2022-12-28T14:16:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bpf-takes-advantage-of-the-holidays"},"modified":"2022-12-28T14:16:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:16:53","slug":"bpf-takes-advantage-of-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bpf-takes-advantage-of-the-holidays","title":{"rendered":"BPF takes advantage of the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) has decided to take advantage of the the holidys to campaign in some areas.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The BPF has been working hard, going from house to house campaigning and recruiting new members. A member of the Serowe North constituency, Baratiwa Mathoothe, said: \u201cDifferent wards are holding their own meetings as part of preparations for the January 2023 general meeting. The reason you are seeing many people putting on BPF t-shirts is part of our campaign to reach out to people. Again most voters do come home during this time. We do not want to leave any stone unturned. Therefore for us, the festive is a good time to campaign and reach out to all members whom we had wanted to talk to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further pointed out that the aim of the party is to win all Serowe constituencies and others that they will be contesting during the 2024 general elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) has decided to take advantage of the the holidys to campaign in some areas. The BPF has been working hard, going from house to house campaigning and recruiting new members. A member of the Serowe North constituency, Baratiwa Mathoothe, said: \u201cDifferent wards are holding their own meetings as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":19062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,10],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-19063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BPF takes advantage of the holidays - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/bpf-takes-advantage-of-the-holidays\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BPF takes advantage of the holidays\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. 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