{"id":176494,"date":"2024-07-13T13:55:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T11:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-same-sex-marriage-not-namibian-law-namandje\/"},"modified":"2024-07-13T13:55:49","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T11:55:49","slug":"namibia-same-sex-marriage-not-namibian-law-namandje","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-same-sex-marriage-not-namibian-law-namandje\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Same-Sex Marriage Not Namibian Law &#8211; Namandje"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Lawyer and Swapo central committee member Sisa Namandje says same-sex marriage is not in accordance with Namibian law and the sodomy challenge should have been dismissed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">In a public lecture on Saturday, Namandje spoke under the theme, &#8216;Can There Be A Constitutional Court-made Law or Principle Having No Roots in the Language and Scheme of the Namibian Constitution? A Critical Look at the Recent Judgement of the High Court of Namibia on the Crime of Sodomy&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><strong>&#8220;We support the government&#8217;s position on&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407100048.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>Lawyer and Swapo central committee member Sisa Namandje says same-sex marriage is not in accordance with Namibian law and the sodomy challenge should have been dismissed. In a public lecture on Saturday, Namandje spoke under the theme, &#8216;Can There Be A Constitutional Court-made Law or Principle Having No Roots in the Language and Scheme of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":176495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601998:0ff67b48150c603f21233401e22fd97e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7077,9795,20475,4706,724,6953,257,26257,254],"class_list":["post-176494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-law","tag-marriage","tag-namandje","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian","tag-news","tag-samesex","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00601998:0ff67b48150c603f21233401e22fd97e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176494","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=176494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}