{"id":188136,"date":"2025-01-08T02:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T00:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-hockey-teams-boosted-for-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T02:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T00:22:29","slug":"namibia-hockey-teams-boosted-for-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-hockey-teams-boosted-for-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Hockey Teams Boosted for World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>Namibia&#8217;s men and women&#8217;s indoor hockey teams yesterday departed for next month&#8217;s Indoor Hockey World Cup in Croatia in high spirits and with a financial boost of N$5 million from the Ministry of Sport.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">At the teams&#8217; farewell ceremony yesterday, Deputy Minister of Sport Emma Kantema-Gaomas expressed their full support for the teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"94\">&#8220;As part of our mandate to support the growth of sport in Namibia, I&#8217;m proud to inform the nation that for us to ensure that Team Namibia go and participate in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501070195.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>Namibia&#8217;s men and women&#8217;s indoor hockey teams yesterday departed for next month&#8217;s Indoor Hockey World Cup in Croatia in high spirits and with a financial boost of N$5 million from the Ministry of Sport. At the teams&#8217; farewell ceremony yesterday, Deputy Minister of Sport Emma Kantema-Gaomas expressed their full support for the teams. &#8220;As part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188137,"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":[258,256,39455,6674,8795,4706,724,257,254,8492,5093],"class_list":["post-188136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boosted","tag-cup","tag-hockey","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teams","tag-world"],"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\/188136","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=188136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}