{"id":183220,"date":"2024-10-24T17:59:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-tensions-simmering-at-kombat-over-unfair-labour-practices\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T17:59:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T15:59:09","slug":"namibia-tensions-simmering-at-kombat-over-unfair-labour-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-tensions-simmering-at-kombat-over-unfair-labour-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Tensions Simmering At Kombat Over Unfair Labour Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>Workers at Kombat Mine near Otavi are accusing the mine&#8217;s management of racism, nepotism and unfair labour practices.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">The mine has been in operation once again since May 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">According to a letter addressed to Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN), northern region organiser Reginald Kock, dated 8 October, workers have asked for the union&#8217;s urgent intervention on their behalf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;Our managers do not respect us as humans. There are no healthy and safe working conditions, and they don&#8217;t listen to our&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410220423.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>Workers at Kombat Mine near Otavi are accusing the mine&#8217;s management of racism, nepotism and unfair labour practices. The mine has been in operation once again since May 2023. According to a letter addressed to Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN), northern region organiser Reginald Kock, dated 8 October, workers have asked for the union&#8217;s urgent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183221,"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":[258,256,39947,8361,4706,724,257,9224,37052,254,7182,15329],"class_list":["post-183220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kombat","tag-labour","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-practices","tag-simmering","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tensions","tag-unfair"],"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\/183220","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=183220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}