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The Namibian Presidency has told New Era’s former managing editor, Johnathan Beukes, to take his complaints to the media ombudsman.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Presidency was responding to Beukes speaking out about the threat of censorship and government influence on Namibia’s press.<\/p>\n He said the decisions made by the government immediately after president Hage Geingob’s death leave a lot to be desired.<\/p>\n “It has just been months since his unfortunate…<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> … Presidency tells former New Era editor; union fears for media freedom The Namibian Presidency has told New Era’s former managing editor, Johnathan Beukes, to take his complaints to the media ombudsman. The Presidency was responding to Beukes speaking out about the threat of censorship and government influence on Namibia’s press. He said the decisions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184749,"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":[258,256,9728,12977,11475,5140,7636,4959,4706,724,257,8087,8404,6010,42146,6129,254],"class_list":["post-184748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-complaints","tag-editors","tag-era","tag-fears","tag-freedom","tag-media","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-ombudsman","tag-presidency","tag-press","tag-refers","tag-responds","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\/184748","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=184748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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