{"id":175944,"date":"2024-07-05T13:40:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T11:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-itula-promises-lean-govt-of-15-ministers\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T13:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T11:40:24","slug":"namibia-itula-promises-lean-govt-of-15-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-itula-promises-lean-govt-of-15-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Itula Promises Lean Govt of 15 Ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) president Panduleni Itula says he intends to reduce the country&#8217;s ministries from 23 to 15 to save the treasury about N$2 billion if voted into power.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Speaking to Desert Radio on Wednesday, Itula said the saved money would be spent on Namibia&#8217;s youth to develop entrepreneurial skills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Since founding the IPC in 2020, he has visited over 350 villages to campaign and engage with the nation, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;We engage with young people, business people, old people and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407050282.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>Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) president Panduleni Itula says he intends to reduce the country&#8217;s ministries from 23 to 15 to save the treasury about N$2 billion if voted into power. Speaking to Desert Radio on Wednesday, Itula said the saved money would be spent on Namibia&#8217;s youth to develop entrepreneurial skills. Since founding the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175945,"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":[258,256,4357,31699,39725,8788,4706,724,257,9343,254],"class_list":["post-175944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-govt","tag-itula","tag-lean","tag-ministers","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-promises","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/175944","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=175944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}