{"id":187552,"date":"2024-12-30T14:04:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T12:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nbc-suspension-taints-namibias-press-freedom\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T14:04:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T12:04:46","slug":"namibia-nbc-suspension-taints-namibias-press-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nbc-suspension-taints-namibias-press-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: NBC Suspension Taints Namibia&#8217;s Press Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The suspension of Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) executive editor Anna Nicodemus is a worrying development for freedom of the media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Nicodemus was suspended after she made remarks about the shambolic 2024 elections, including comments about president-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah&#8217;s health in an interview with South African news channel Newzroom Afrika.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;Concerns have been raised about whether a woman in her 70s can govern effectively and efficiently. During the campaign trail, we heard&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412160564.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>The suspension of Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) executive editor Anna Nicodemus is a worrying development for freedom of the media. Nicodemus was suspended after she made remarks about the shambolic 2024 elections, including comments about president-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah&#8217;s health in an interview with South African news channel Newzroom Afrika. &#8220;Concerns have been raised about whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":187553,"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":[258,256,7636,4706,724,9052,28113,257,6010,254,10829,48904],"class_list":["post-187552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-freedom","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-nbc","tag-news","tag-press","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspension","tag-taints"],"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\/187552","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=187552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}