{"id":176703,"date":"2024-07-17T02:06:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T00:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-over-16-million-namibians-eligible-to-vote\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T02:06:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T00:06:06","slug":"namibia-over-16-million-namibians-eligible-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-over-16-million-namibians-eligible-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Over 1,6 Million Namibians Eligible to Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) says about 1,6 million Namibians are eligible to vote in the November presidential and parliamentary elections.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Of these, over 763 700 are men, and 852 100 are women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">According to the agency, the number of eligible voters is in line with the recently concluded population census.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;All the Namibians (excluding non-citizens) in the category of 18 years and above are eligible voters and can thus register for the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">&#8220;This amount is 1 615 910,&#8221; the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407160473.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>The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) says about 1,6 million Namibians are eligible to vote in the November presidential and parliamentary elections. Of these, over 763 700 are men, and 852 100 are women. According to the agency, the number of eligible voters is in line with the recently concluded population census. &#8220;All the Namibians (excluding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":176704,"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":[258,256,9376,5118,4706,724,7974,257,254,8588],"class_list":["post-176703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-eligible","tag-million","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibians","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vote"],"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\/176703","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=176703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}