{"id":187936,"date":"2025-01-05T02:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T00:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-fisherman-scores-blessed-n2-000-new-years-catch\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T02:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T00:15:15","slug":"namibia-fisherman-scores-blessed-n2-000-new-years-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-fisherman-scores-blessed-n2-000-new-years-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Fisherman Scores &#8216;Blessed&#8217; N$2 000 New Year&#8217;s Catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>Fisherman Moses Muronga says while others were celebrating the new year, he caught enough fish to cover his children&#8217;s school fees.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Namibian caught up with the Kehemu resident selling fish door to door on the streets of Rundu on Wednesday, while on his way from the river.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">&#8220;As others were celebrating the new year&#8217;s countdown, I was at the river the whole night to catch fish to make a living,&#8221; Muronga said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Fishing is the only source of income for his family, he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;It is my first time&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501040021.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>Fisherman Moses Muronga says while others were celebrating the new year, he caught enough fish to cover his children&#8217;s school fees. The Namibian caught up with the Kehemu resident selling fish door to door on the streets of Rundu on Wednesday, while on his way from the river. &#8220;As others were celebrating the new year&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":187937,"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":[258,256,39827,12256,19257,4706,724,257,7597,254,5114],"class_list":["post-187936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blessed","tag-catch","tag-fisherman","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-scores","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\/187936","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=187936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}