{"id":181206,"date":"2024-09-24T16:56:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T14:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swapo-yearns-for-walvis-return\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T14:56:30","slug":"namibia-swapo-yearns-for-walvis-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swapo-yearns-for-walvis-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Swapo Yearns for Walvis&#8217; Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Walvis Bay \u2014 Swapo presidential candidate Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says the ruling party is not only seeking victory at this year&#8217;s polls, but also wants Walvis Bay under its control again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The party lost its grip on the coastal town in 2020 when they were knocked off their perch by the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), led by Panduleni Itula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Nandi-Ndaitwah, who was overwhelmed by the turnout of Swapo supporters on Saturday, said Walvis Bay has historical ties with the party&#8217;s fight during&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409240422.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>Walvis Bay \u2014 Swapo presidential candidate Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says the ruling party is not only seeking victory at this year&#8217;s polls, but also wants Walvis Bay under its control again. The party lost its grip on the coastal town in 2020 when they were knocked off their perch by the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181207,"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":[258,256,4706,724,257,6656,254,1664,10438,49595],"class_list":["post-181206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-return","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swapo","tag-walvis","tag-yearns"],"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\/181206","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=181206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}