{"id":181816,"date":"2024-10-04T05:16:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-education-ministry-suspends-classes-at-kavango-east-school-amid-water-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-10-04T05:16:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T03:16:13","slug":"namibia-education-ministry-suspends-classes-at-kavango-east-school-amid-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-education-ministry-suspends-classes-at-kavango-east-school-amid-water-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Education Ministry Suspends Classes At Kavango East School Amid Water Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em>Classes at Ndama Junior Primary School at Rundu have been suspended until further notice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">This is because the school has not had water for the past four weeks. The education director in the Kavango East region, Christine Shiilima, made the announcement on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The school ran out of water for almost four weeks, and the septic tank had not been drained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">More than 1 300 pupils and 37 staff members at the school are affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">According to Shilima, classes were suspended after an assessment of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410030039.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>Classes at Ndama Junior Primary School at Rundu have been suspended until further notice. This is because the school has not had water for the past four weeks. The education director in the Kavango East region, Christine Shiilima, made the announcement on Wednesday The school ran out of water for almost four weeks, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":181817,"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":[258,256,13628,3723,6719,1632,9725,6857,4706,724,257,4362,254,10452,6722],"class_list":["post-181816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-classes","tag-crisis","tag-east","tag-education","tag-kavango","tag-ministry","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-school","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspends","tag-water"],"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\/181816","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=181816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}