{"id":180448,"date":"2024-09-12T16:25:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-political-parties-should-be-specific-in-manifestos\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T14:25:08","slug":"namibia-political-parties-should-be-specific-in-manifestos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-political-parties-should-be-specific-in-manifestos\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Political Parties Should Be Specific in Manifestos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>Political parties should explain exactly how they plan to address the country&#8217;s challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Political analyst Rui Tyitende this week challenged politicians to set out the practical terms of addressing challenges in their party manifestos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">He was speaking at a public dialogue on the political economy at the Namibia University of Science and Technology on Wednesday, focusing on what citizens should expect in election manifestos.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><strong>&#8220;I want political parties to fully address real issues in their&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409090634.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>Political parties should explain exactly how they plan to address the country&#8217;s challenges. Political analyst Rui Tyitende this week challenged politicians to set out the practical terms of addressing challenges in their party manifestos. He was speaking at a public dialogue on the political economy at the Namibia University of Science and Technology on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180449,"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":[258,256,39421,4706,724,257,6744,6378,254,35285],"class_list":["post-180448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-manifestos","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-parties","tag-political","tag-south-africa-today","tag-specific"],"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\/180448","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=180448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}