{"id":181340,"date":"2024-09-26T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mbumba-lauds-namibian-youth\/"},"modified":"2024-09-26T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T15:00:04","slug":"namibia-mbumba-lauds-namibian-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mbumba-lauds-namibian-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Mbumba Lauds Namibian Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">President Nangolo Mbumba says Namibia acknowledges and honours the involvement of the youth and their essential function as part of civil society in fortifying democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">He said it is through the expressions of community organisations, grassroots initiatives and individuals &#8211; often spearheaded by young leaders &#8211; that those in positions of authority are reminded of the needs and aspirations of the populace they represent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Head of State made these remarks while addressing delegates at the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409230557.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>President Nangolo Mbumba says Namibia acknowledges and honours the involvement of the youth and their essential function as part of civil society in fortifying democracy. He said it is through the expressions of community organisations, grassroots initiatives and individuals &#8211; often spearheaded by young leaders &#8211; that those in positions of authority are reminded of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181341,"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":[258,256,9462,23037,4706,724,6953,257,254,6276],"class_list":["post-181340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-lauds","tag-mbumba","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","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\/181340","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=181340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}