{"id":184936,"date":"2024-11-19T23:58:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T21:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibians-head-for-elections-with-confidence-in-the-freedom-of-their-press\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T23:58:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T21:58:20","slug":"namibians-head-for-elections-with-confidence-in-the-freedom-of-their-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibians-head-for-elections-with-confidence-in-the-freedom-of-their-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibians Head for Elections With Confidence in the Freedom of Their Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Most citizens want media to play a watchdog role over government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>About seven in 10 Namibians (71%) say the media should &#8220;constantly investigate and report on government mistakes and corruption.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>More than six in 10 (62%) insist on media freedom, while 36% endorse a government right to prevent the publication of things it disapproves of.<\/li>\n<li>Three-quarters (75%) of Namibians say the country&#8217;s media is &#8220;somewhat free&#8221; or &#8220;completely free&#8221; to report and comment on the news without&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411190387.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>Most citizens want media to play a watchdog role over government. Key findings About seven in 10 Namibians (71%) say the media should &#8220;constantly investigate and report on government mistakes and corruption.&#8221; More than six in 10 (62%) insist on media freedom, while 36% endorse a government right to prevent the publication of things it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":184937,"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":[258,256,11665,821,7636,724,7974,257,6010,254],"class_list":["post-184936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confidence","tag-elections","tag-freedom","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibians","tag-news","tag-press","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\/184936","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=184936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}