{"id":186968,"date":"2024-12-20T13:41:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T11:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-what-the-president-elect-should-do-to-stop-corruption\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T13:41:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T11:41:09","slug":"namibia-what-the-president-elect-should-do-to-stop-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-what-the-president-elect-should-do-to-stop-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: What the President-Elect Should Do to Stop Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>On the campaign trail the president-elect promised to do two things that were very popular.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The first was to spend some N$85 billion on job creation and to deal with corruption. The president-elect was, however, short on specifics on both, and every former president has promised to do the same only to see unemployment and corruption increasing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">How do you address the problem of corruption in Namibia? If you believe it is not systemic, then the solution comes from getting rid of the &#8216;bad apples&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412200373.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>On the campaign trail the president-elect promised to do two things that were very popular. The first was to spend some N$85 billion on job creation and to deal with corruption. The president-elect was, however, short on specifics on both, and every former president has promised to do the same only to see unemployment and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":186969,"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":[258,256,4723,4706,724,257,6440,254,8652],"class_list":["post-186968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corruption","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-presidentelect","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stop"],"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\/186968","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=186968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}