{"id":180348,"date":"2024-09-11T04:21:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T02:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-unemployment-driving-youth-to-alcohol-drugs-amupanda\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T04:21:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T02:21:35","slug":"namibia-unemployment-driving-youth-to-alcohol-drugs-amupanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-unemployment-driving-youth-to-alcohol-drugs-amupanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Unemployment Driving Youth to Alcohol, Drugs &#8211; Amupanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>Affirmative Repositioning (AR) leader Job Amupanda says it&#8217;s sad to see that the country&#8217;s high youth unemployment rate is driving young Namibians to drugs, alcohol and crime.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">This rate was 46,1% in 2023, according to the Namibia Statistics Agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Meanwhile, the preliminary results of the 2023 Housing and Population Census (HPC) indicated that 71,1% (2,1 million) of Namibia&#8217;s population are under 35 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Amupanda, during a media conference at Katima Mulilo on Tuesday, said young people have&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409090636.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>Affirmative Repositioning (AR) leader Job Amupanda says it&#8217;s sad to see that the country&#8217;s high youth unemployment rate is driving young Namibians to drugs, alcohol and crime. This rate was 46,1% in 2023, according to the Namibia Statistics Agency. Meanwhile, the preliminary results of the 2023 Housing and Population Census (HPC) indicated that 71,1% (2,1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180349,"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":[258,256,8656,23781,9694,6614,4706,724,257,254,4749,6276],"class_list":["post-180348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alcohol","tag-amupanda","tag-driving","tag-drugs","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unemployment","tag-youth"],"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\/180348","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=180348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}