{"id":175310,"date":"2024-06-26T13:19:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T11:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-man-accused-of-incest-takes-own-life\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T13:19:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T11:19:51","slug":"namibia-man-accused-of-incest-takes-own-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-man-accused-of-incest-takes-own-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Man Accused of Incest Takes Own Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><em>A man (39) from at Sikali village in the Kavango West region allegedly took his own life by drinking car battery acid, after he was called in by a village headman and elders of the Kahuti village for allegedly impregnating his niece (27).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The deceased was reported to the traditional authority by the pregnant niece&#8217;s husband, who has been working outside the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;The deceased was taken to Rundu Intermediate State Hospital and there he lost his life in the early hours of Sunday,&#8221; said Kavango&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406260312.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man (39) from at Sikali village in the Kavango West region allegedly took his own life by drinking car battery acid, after he was called in by a village headman and elders of the Kahuti village for allegedly impregnating his niece (27). The deceased was reported to the traditional authority by the pregnant niece&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[7083,258,256,19361,6448,6867,4706,724,257,254,5056],"class_list":["post-175310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-incest","tag-life","tag-man","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175310","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}