{"id":183146,"date":"2024-10-23T17:57:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-opposition-demonstrates-against-ballots-contract\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T17:57:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:57:06","slug":"namibia-opposition-demonstrates-against-ballots-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-opposition-demonstrates-against-ballots-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Opposition Demonstrates Against Ballots Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Windhoek, Namibia \u2014 As Namibia prepares to hold a general election next month, the country&#8217;s main opposition party has objected to the South African company hired to print the ballots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The company, Ren-Form, is under investigation by Zimbabwe&#8217;s anti-corruption commission for alleged fraudulent conduct during that country&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Over 110 members of Namibia&#8217;s People&#8217;s Democratic Movement marched to the Electoral Commission of Namibia&#8217;s offices in the capital on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">They delivered a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410230213.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>Windhoek, Namibia \u2014 As Namibia prepares to hold a general election next month, the country&#8217;s main opposition party has objected to the South African company hired to print the ballots. The company, Ren-Form, is under investigation by Zimbabwe&#8217;s anti-corruption commission for alleged fraudulent conduct during that country&#8217;s elections. Over 110 members of Namibia&#8217;s People&#8217;s Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00511342:f89b7a6f6c74762a2e4795cc9c3cea08:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,11836,7062,32420,4706,724,257,5675,254],"class_list":["post-183146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ballots","tag-contract","tag-demonstrates","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00511342:f89b7a6f6c74762a2e4795cc9c3cea08:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183146","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=183146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}