{"id":185310,"date":"2024-11-26T00:41:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T22:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-lessons-from-botswana-namibia-needs-leadership-based-on-merit-not-political-loyalty\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T00:41:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T22:41:27","slug":"africa-lessons-from-botswana-namibia-needs-leadership-based-on-merit-not-political-loyalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-lessons-from-botswana-namibia-needs-leadership-based-on-merit-not-political-loyalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Lessons From Botswana &#8211; Namibia Needs Leadership Based On Merit, Not Political Loyalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>As Namibia prepares for the upcoming elections, it&#8217;s time for us to reflect on the kind of leadership we need for the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The importance of selecting individuals who can truly deliver on their promises cannot be overstated, and the recent example set by the president of Botswana offers invaluable lessons for our own leadership choices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In Botswana, the president appointed a 26-year-old as the minister of youth &#8211; not because of political affiliation or party loyalty, but because of her proven&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411250696.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>As Namibia prepares for the upcoming elections, it&#8217;s time for us to reflect on the kind of leadership we need for the future. The importance of selecting individuals who can truly deliver on their promises cannot be overstated, and the recent example set by the president of Botswana offers invaluable lessons for our own leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185311,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,9112,4718,2462,8771,8208,14153,15384,4706,257,6378,254],"class_list":["post-185310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-based","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-leadership","tag-lessons","tag-loyalty","tag-merit","tag-namibia","tag-news","tag-political","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\/185310","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=185310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}