{"id":178945,"date":"2024-08-21T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-uncouth-nujoma-embodies-entitlement\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:23:11","slug":"namibia-uncouth-nujoma-embodies-entitlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-uncouth-nujoma-embodies-entitlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Uncouth Nujoma Embodies Entitlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>The arrogance, entitlement and self-enrichment of Namibia&#8217;s political leaders need to be reined in very soon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Labour minister Utoni Nujoma this week responded with &#8220;go to hell&#8221; to a journalist asking about the minister of agriculture writing off N$19 000 of Nujoma&#8217;s land tax obligations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">More civilised, but no less entitled, was the response of official opposition leader McHenry Venaani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">&#8220;It is not Venaani going and lobbying for tax exemption. It is an automatic category that when a person is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408190552.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 arrogance, entitlement and self-enrichment of Namibia&#8217;s political leaders need to be reined in very soon. Labour minister Utoni Nujoma this week responded with &#8220;go to hell&#8221; to a journalist asking about the minister of agriculture writing off N$19 000 of Nujoma&#8217;s land tax obligations. More civilised, but no less entitled, was the response of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":178946,"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":[258,256,28499,36915,4706,724,257,16690,254,49335],"class_list":["post-178945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-embodies","tag-entitlement","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nujoma","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uncouth"],"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\/178945","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=178945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}