{"id":186305,"date":"2024-12-11T01:20:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T23:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mama-swapo-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T01:20:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T23:20:44","slug":"namibia-mama-swapo-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mama-swapo-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: &#8216;Mama Swapo&#8217; &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is a leader, and her entire life has prepared her for the next assignment as President of the Republic of Namibia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">She and her party, the South West Africa People&#8217;s Organization (SWAPO) party, won the national elections in Namibia on 27-30 November 2024 and she is the president-elect until her inauguration as President on 21 March 2025, which will be the 35th anniversary of Namibia&#8217;s Independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">She is the first woman elected to that position, but that is not the story&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412100398.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>Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is a leader, and her entire life has prepared her for the next assignment as President of the Republic of Namibia. She and her party, the South West Africa People&#8217;s Organization (SWAPO) party, won the national elections in Namibia on 27-30 November 2024 and she is the president-elect until her inauguration as President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186306,"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":[258,256,42655,9269,4706,724,257,254,1664],"class_list":["post-186305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-mama","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swapo"],"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\/186305","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=186305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}