{"id":185454,"date":"2024-11-28T00:49:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T22:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-itula-urges-voters-to-honour-democratic-sacrifices\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T00:49:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T22:49:38","slug":"namibia-itula-urges-voters-to-honour-democratic-sacrifices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-itula-urges-voters-to-honour-democratic-sacrifices\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Itula Urges Voters to Honour Democratic Sacrifices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) leader Panduleni Itula says democracy is critical for Namibia and citizens have a responsibility to shape the country&#8217;s future through their votes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Speaking to reporters on Wednesday before casting his vote in the ongoing presidential and National Assembly elections, Itula reflected on the historical sacrifices made to achieve Namibia&#8217;s democratic system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;We live in a world that has got some degree of organised hierarchy, isn&#8217;t it? And that organised&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411270434.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>Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) leader Panduleni Itula says democracy is critical for Namibia and citizens have a responsibility to shape the country&#8217;s future through their votes. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday before casting his vote in the ongoing presidential and National Assembly elections, Itula reflected on the historical sacrifices made to achieve Namibia&#8217;s democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660685:c0cf203fd83a229da2cb6dd750ff4de4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6404,10998,31699,4706,724,257,23495,254,6810,7243],"class_list":["post-185454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-democratic","tag-honour","tag-itula","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-sacrifices","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-voters"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660685:c0cf203fd83a229da2cb6dd750ff4de4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185454","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=185454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}