{"id":183478,"date":"2024-10-28T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T16:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-president-mbumba-reiterates-education-as-equaliser\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T18:09:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T16:09:07","slug":"namibia-president-mbumba-reiterates-education-as-equaliser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-president-mbumba-reiterates-education-as-equaliser\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: President Mbumba Reiterates Education As Equaliser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><em>President Nangolo Mbumba says education remains a great equaliser unlocking doors towards economic independence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Speaking at the University of Namibia&#8217;s annual chancellor charity gala dinner on Friday, Mbumba said education ignites passion and enhances critical thinking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;Higher education in particular plays a vital role in nation-building, profoundly impacting the lives of individuals, families and communities,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Mbumba added that education has the power to uplift individuals and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410210099.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 education remains a great equaliser unlocking doors towards economic independence. Speaking at the University of Namibia&#8217;s annual chancellor charity gala dinner on Friday, Mbumba said education ignites passion and enhances critical thinking. &#8220;Higher education in particular plays a vital role in nation-building, profoundly impacting the lives of individuals, families and communities,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183479,"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":[258,256,1632,41188,23037,4706,724,257,2450,9502,254],"class_list":["post-183478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-education","tag-equaliser","tag-mbumba","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-president","tag-reiterates","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/183478","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=183478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}