{"id":176077,"date":"2024-07-07T13:44:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T11:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-oppressing-lgbtqi-like-in-apartheid-days-walters\/"},"modified":"2024-07-07T13:44:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T11:44:39","slug":"namibia-govt-oppressing-lgbtqi-like-in-apartheid-days-walters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-oppressing-lgbtqi-like-in-apartheid-days-walters\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Govt Oppressing LGBTQI+ Like in Apartheid Days &#8211; Walters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Former ombudsman John Walters says the current government is oppressing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer\/questioning, intersex and other (LGBTQI+) community in the same way South Africa&#8217;s apartheid regime has oppressed people of colour in Namibia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Walters yesterday responded to minister of home affairs, immigration, safety and security Albert Kawana tabling the marriage bill, which prohibits same-sex marriage, in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s the same people who suffered under that&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407050076.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>Former ombudsman John Walters says the current government is oppressing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer\/questioning, intersex and other (LGBTQI+) community in the same way South Africa&#8217;s apartheid regime has oppressed people of colour in Namibia. Walters yesterday responded to minister of home affairs, immigration, safety and security Albert Kawana tabling the marriage bill, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":176078,"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":[258,256,3572,6192,4357,25648,4706,724,257,48966,254,48967],"class_list":["post-176077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apartheid","tag-days","tag-govt","tag-lgbtqi","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-oppressing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-walters"],"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\/176077","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=176077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}