{"id":178002,"date":"2024-08-06T14:50:12","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T12:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-walvis-bay-remembers-butchery-bomb\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T14:50:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T12:50:12","slug":"namibia-walvis-bay-remembers-butchery-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-walvis-bay-remembers-butchery-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Walvis Bay Remembers Butchery Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Although almost forgotten by many, friends and family members of the victims of the Atlantic Meat Market bomb on 2 August 1986 cannot forget.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Walvis Bay butchery, which was built in 1951 by Walter Hertzberg, was a popular shopping destination for residents, especially on Saturdays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Here they bought unique meat products, like smoked bones, jagwors and hardewors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Former Atlantic employees Vera Steenkamp and Regina Adams remember the Saturday morning on which a bomb exploded at the butchery,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408060022.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>Although almost forgotten by many, friends and family members of the victims of the Atlantic Meat Market bomb on 2 August 1986 cannot forget. The Walvis Bay butchery, which was built in 1951 by Walter Hertzberg, was a popular shopping destination for residents, especially on Saturdays. Here they bought unique meat products, like smoked bones, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178003,"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":[258,256,8611,1185,49235,4706,724,257,11430,254,10438],"class_list":["post-178002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bay","tag-bomb","tag-butchery","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-remembers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-walvis"],"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\/178002","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=178002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}