{"id":186113,"date":"2024-12-08T01:14:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-i-have-known-namibias-new-president-for-30-years-she-will-deliver-byanyima\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T01:14:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T23:14:28","slug":"namibia-i-have-known-namibias-new-president-for-30-years-she-will-deliver-byanyima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-i-have-known-namibias-new-president-for-30-years-she-will-deliver-byanyima\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: I Have Known Namibia&#8217;s New President for 30 Years, She Will Deliver &#8211; Byanyima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Winnie Byanyima, has voiced her confidence in Namibia&#8217;s new president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, the first woman to hold the position in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Nandi-Ndaitwah, a leader of the South West Africa People&#8217;s Organisation (Swapo), emerged victorious in a disputed election last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Byanyima, reflecting on their decades-long friendship, expressed her belief in Nandi-Ndaitwah&#8217;s capability to steer Namibia forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">&#8220;It is good to know that some things are going right&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412060029.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>The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Winnie Byanyima, has voiced her confidence in Namibia&#8217;s new president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, the first woman to hold the position in the country. Nandi-Ndaitwah, a leader of the South West Africa People&#8217;s Organisation (Swapo), emerged victorious in a disputed election last week. Byanyima, reflecting on their decades-long friendship, expressed her belief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186114,"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":[258,256,50131,6126,4706,724,9052,257,2450,254,5114],"class_list":["post-186113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-byanyima","tag-deliver","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years"],"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\/186113","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=186113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}