{"id":181002,"date":"2024-09-21T04:48:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T02:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-pdm-donates-caskets-to-families-of-four-children-who-suffocated-in-freezer-at-katima-mulilo\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T04:48:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T02:48:12","slug":"namibia-pdm-donates-caskets-to-families-of-four-children-who-suffocated-in-freezer-at-katima-mulilo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-pdm-donates-caskets-to-families-of-four-children-who-suffocated-in-freezer-at-katima-mulilo\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: PDM Donates Caskets to Families of Four Children Who Suffocated in Freezer At Katima Mulilo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) has donated caskets to the families of the four children who suffocated in a freezer at Katima Mulilo on Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">PDM national spokesperson Geoffrey Mwilima confirmed this on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">He said it is part of the party&#8217;s social responsibility to assist communities in times of tragedy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">&#8220;It is prudent as an organisation to assist,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">According to Mwilima, most of the deceased&#8217;s parents are unemployed and cannot afford to buy coffins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;. . . and all of them&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409200731.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 Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) has donated caskets to the families of the four children who suffocated in a freezer at Katima Mulilo on Monday. PDM national spokesperson Geoffrey Mwilima confirmed this on Thursday. He said it is part of the party&#8217;s social responsibility to assist communities in times of tragedy. &#8220;It is prudent as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181003,"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":[258,256,49569,7371,5073,9255,49571,11831,30685,4706,724,257,16341,254,49570],"class_list":["post-181002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caskets","tag-children","tag-donates","tag-families","tag-freezer","tag-katima","tag-mulilo","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pdm","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suffocated"],"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\/181002","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=181002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}