{"id":183077,"date":"2024-10-22T17:55:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-media-ombudsman-raises-concerns-over-ballot-tender\/"},"modified":"2024-10-22T17:55:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T15:55:36","slug":"namibia-media-ombudsman-raises-concerns-over-ballot-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-media-ombudsman-raises-concerns-over-ballot-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Media Ombudsman Raises Concerns Over Ballot Tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>The media ombudsman, John Nakuta, has raised concerns over the controversies surrounding the awarding of the ballot printing tender for the upcoming election.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nakuta said this in Windhoek on Tuesday during the presentation of a report on an ongoing media monitoring project on the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;Whether the allegations are true or not, as a nation, we are concerned about the controversy happening around the printing of the ballot paper,&#8221; said Nakuta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;We are concerned as a nation that all&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410220425.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 media ombudsman, John Nakuta, has raised concerns over the controversies surrounding the awarding of the ballot printing tender for the upcoming election. Nakuta said this in Windhoek on Tuesday during the presentation of a report on an ongoing media monitoring project on the upcoming elections. &#8220;Whether the allegations are true or not, as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183078,"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":[258,256,9240,5987,4959,4706,724,257,8087,5234,254,8121],"class_list":["post-183077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ballot","tag-concerns","tag-media","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-ombudsman","tag-raises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tender"],"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\/183077","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=183077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}