{"id":186653,"date":"2024-12-16T01:31:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T23:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-after-40-years-dave-smuts-hangs-up-his-gown\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T01:31:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T23:31:21","slug":"namibia-after-40-years-dave-smuts-hangs-up-his-gown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-after-40-years-dave-smuts-hangs-up-his-gown\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: After 40 Years, Dave Smuts Hangs Up His Gown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>Although he may have hung up his judge&#8217;s gown, justice Dave Smuts says he will still be an active participant in Namibia&#8217;s legal system and is looking forward to advocating against injustice and inequality.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Smuts was speaking to Desert FM yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">He served as a judge of appeal in the country&#8217;s top court since the start of 2015, after serving as a High Court judge since 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Smuts retired as a full-time judge of the Supreme Court at the end of November, having reached permanent judges&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412090679.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>Although he may have hung up his judge&#8217;s gown, justice Dave Smuts says he will still be an active participant in Namibia&#8217;s legal system and is looking forward to advocating against injustice and inequality. Smuts was speaking to Desert FM yesterday. He served as a judge of appeal in the country&#8217;s top court since the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186654,"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":[258,256,50183,9099,11795,4706,724,257,49360,254,5114],"class_list":["post-186653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dave","tag-gown","tag-hangs","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-smuts","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\/186653","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=186653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}