{"id":183859,"date":"2024-11-03T18:19:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T16:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/zimbabwe-namibian-opposition-rages-as-company-linked-to-ex-con-chivayo-is-awarded-u-s-60-million-tender-to-supply-election-materials\/"},"modified":"2024-11-03T18:19:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T16:19:23","slug":"zimbabwe-namibian-opposition-rages-as-company-linked-to-ex-con-chivayo-is-awarded-u-s-60-million-tender-to-supply-election-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/zimbabwe-namibian-opposition-rages-as-company-linked-to-ex-con-chivayo-is-awarded-u-s-60-million-tender-to-supply-election-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Namibian Opposition Rages As Company Linked to Ex-Con Chivayo Is Awarded U.S.$60 Million Tender to Supply Election Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">NAMIBIAN opposition party, the Popular Democratic Party (PDP), has raised objections to a US$60 million tender awarded to a company linked to controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo by the country&#8217;s electoral body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">South African company Ren-Form CC was recently granted a tender by the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) to print ballot papers for the presidential and national elections scheduled for November 27 this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The company is linked to controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410210064.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>NAMIBIAN opposition party, the Popular Democratic Party (PDP), has raised objections to a US$60 million tender awarded to a company linked to controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo by the country&#8217;s electoral body. South African company Ren-Form CC was recently granted a tender by the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) to print ballot papers for the presidential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":183860,"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":[258,256,6534,18483,7156,3119,49883,12237,10865,5118,724,6953,257,5675,8120,254,5236,8121,49884,4686],"class_list":["post-183859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-awarded","tag-chivayo","tag-company","tag-election","tag-excon","tag-linked","tag-materials","tag-million","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-rages","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supply","tag-tender","tag-u-s-60","tag-zimbabwe"],"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\/183859","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=183859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}