{"id":187385,"date":"2024-12-27T13:56:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T11:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-editors-applaud-namibia-media-professionals-union-as-milestone-for-journalism\/"},"modified":"2024-12-27T13:56:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T11:56:16","slug":"namibia-editors-applaud-namibia-media-professionals-union-as-milestone-for-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-editors-applaud-namibia-media-professionals-union-as-milestone-for-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Editors Applaud Namibia Media Professionals Union As Milestone for Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Some editors have welcomed the registration of the Namibia Media Professionals Union (Nampu), describing it as a good development for the industry, albeit late in coming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nampu received its registration from the Office of the Labour Commissioner this week, after over four years of unresolved discussions surrounding an &#8216;unsatisfactory&#8217; constitutional document.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Editors&#8217; Forum of Namibia secretary general Selma Ikela says now that Nampu is registered, it must focus on journalists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been a long&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412190428.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>Some editors have welcomed the registration of the Namibia Media Professionals Union (Nampu), describing it as a good development for the industry, albeit late in coming. Nampu received its registration from the Office of the Labour Commissioner this week, after over four years of unresolved discussions surrounding an &#8216;unsatisfactory&#8217; constitutional document. Editors&#8217; Forum of Namibia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":187386,"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":[258,256,20066,12977,3115,4959,12070,4706,724,257,19820,254,6156],"class_list":["post-187385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-applaud","tag-editors","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-milestone","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-professionals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-union"],"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\/187385","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=187385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}