{"id":186761,"date":"2024-12-17T13:35:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T11:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-historic-namibias-first-ever-media-union-registered-we-have-a-voice-in-nampu-journalists\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T13:35:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T11:35:38","slug":"namibia-historic-namibias-first-ever-media-union-registered-we-have-a-voice-in-nampu-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-historic-namibias-first-ever-media-union-registered-we-have-a-voice-in-nampu-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Historic &#8211; Namibia&#8217;s First-Ever Media Union Registered &#8230; &#8216;We Have a Voice in Nampu&#8217; &#8211; Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">After almost half-a-decade of letters flying back and forth, and attempts by some media house bosses to reduce it to a briefcase entity, the Namibia Media Professionals Union (Nampu) was yesterday certified by the Labour Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Nampu becomes Namibia&#8217;s first-ever union specifically representing and targeting issues which affect journalists and media professionals in general in Namibia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">&#8220;Namibia Media Professionals Union has been registered as a trade union in respect of the media industry in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412170298.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>After almost half-a-decade of letters flying back and forth, and attempts by some media house bosses to reduce it to a briefcase entity, the Namibia Media Professionals Union (Nampu) was yesterday certified by the Labour Commissioner. Nampu becomes Namibia&#8217;s first-ever union specifically representing and targeting issues which affect journalists and media professionals in general in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186762,"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":[258,256,13853,13203,1654,4959,4706,724,9052,50199,257,7242,254,6156,10858],"class_list":["post-186761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-firstever","tag-historic","tag-journalists","tag-media","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-nampu","tag-news","tag-registered","tag-south-africa-today","tag-union","tag-voice"],"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\/186761","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=186761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}