{"id":185378,"date":"2024-11-27T00:47:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T22:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-namibiaelections2024-fact-checking-opposition-popular-democratic-movement-manifesto\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T00:47:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T22:47:36","slug":"namibia-namibiaelections2024-fact-checking-opposition-popular-democratic-movement-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-namibiaelections2024-fact-checking-opposition-popular-democratic-movement-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: #NamibiaElections2024 &#8211; Fact-Checking Opposition Popular Democratic Movement Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>#NamibiaElections2024: Fact-checking opposition Popular Democratic Movement manifesto <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The opposition party&#8217;s claim that about 22% of the Namibian population experiences acute food insecurity is supported by available data, and their claim that 62% of the working population can be defined as &#8220;youth&#8221; is mostly correct.<\/li>\n<li>The PDM understated the classroom shortage in Namibia, and the figures it quoted on the number of schools without tech infrastructure are misleading.<\/li>\n<li>The PDM&#8217;s comparison of the&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411260299.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>#NamibiaElections2024: Fact-checking opposition Popular Democratic Movement manifesto The opposition party&#8217;s claim that about 22% of the Namibian population experiences acute food insecurity is supported by available data, and their claim that 62% of the working population can be defined as &#8220;youth&#8221; is mostly correct. The PDM understated the classroom shortage in Namibia, and the figures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185379,"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":[258,256,6404,14837,10919,8239,4706,724,50058,257,5675,11271,254],"class_list":["post-185378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-democratic","tag-factchecking","tag-manifesto","tag-movement","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibiaelections2024","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-popular","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\/185378","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=185378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}