{"id":177833,"date":"2024-08-03T14:43:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T12:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-government-condemns-german-officials-controversial-memorial-wreath\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T14:43:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T12:43:07","slug":"namibia-government-condemns-german-officials-controversial-memorial-wreath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-government-condemns-german-officials-controversial-memorial-wreath\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Government Condemns German Official&#8217;s Controversial Memorial Wreath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The government has strongly condemned the actions of Sven Tritschler, Deputy Leader of the German right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Parliamentary faction from North Rhine-Westphalia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">During a recent visit to Namibia, Tritschler and a colleague laid a memorial wreath at the grave site of an infamous officer of the notorious, &#8220;Schutztruppe&#8221;. Schutztruppe was the official name of the colonial troops in the African territories of the German colonial empire from the late 19th century to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408020361.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 government has strongly condemned the actions of Sven Tritschler, Deputy Leader of the German right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Parliamentary faction from North Rhine-Westphalia. During a recent visit to Namibia, Tritschler and a colleague laid a memorial wreath at the grave site of an infamous officer of the notorious, &#8220;Schutztruppe&#8221;. Schutztruppe was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00611252:f702646bd22a74edd6c42bba1bd8349e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,7610,11087,3957,6427,11358,4706,724,257,6651,254,49218],"class_list":["post-177833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-condemns","tag-controversial","tag-german","tag-government","tag-memorial","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wreath"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00611252:f702646bd22a74edd6c42bba1bd8349e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177833","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=177833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}