{"id":184500,"date":"2024-11-13T07:25:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T05:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-botswana-vice-president-ndaba-gaolathe-reflects-on-namibia-detention-and-political-mentorship-under-hidipo-hamutenya\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T07:25:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T05:25:28","slug":"africa-botswana-vice-president-ndaba-gaolathe-reflects-on-namibia-detention-and-political-mentorship-under-hidipo-hamutenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-botswana-vice-president-ndaba-gaolathe-reflects-on-namibia-detention-and-political-mentorship-under-hidipo-hamutenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Botswana Vice President Ndaba Gaolathe Reflects On Namibia Detention and Political Mentorship Under Hidipo Hamutenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>Botswana&#8217;s new vice president, Ndaba Gaolathe, worked in Namibia and was detained for allegedly supporting former Swapo veteran Hidipo Hamutenya&#8217;s presidency.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">&#8220;I was once detained at an airport in Namibia for supporting Hamutenya&#8217;s presidential bid against former president Hifikepunye Pohamba,&#8221; Gaolathe recalled, sharing these details for the first time in an interview with The Namibian and its Botswana partner, the INK Centre for Investigative Journalism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Gaolathe, an economist and mathematician,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411110096.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana&#8217;s new vice president, Ndaba Gaolathe, worked in Namibia and was detained for allegedly supporting former Swapo veteran Hidipo Hamutenya&#8217;s presidency. &#8220;I was once detained at an airport in Namibia for supporting Hamutenya&#8217;s presidential bid against former president Hifikepunye Pohamba,&#8221; Gaolathe recalled, sharing these details for the first time in an interview with The Namibian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660451:3cd5bad0df40b68959ff061f5f246f6a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,6978,49964,49966,49965,12703,4706,49963,257,6378,2450,16974,254,8505],"class_list":["post-184500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-detention","tag-gaolathe","tag-hamutenya","tag-hidipo","tag-mentorship","tag-namibia","tag-ndaba","tag-news","tag-political","tag-president","tag-reflects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vice"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660451:3cd5bad0df40b68959ff061f5f246f6a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184500","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=184500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}