{"id":188696,"date":"2025-01-15T16:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T14:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-desperate-times-in-zambezi-as-parents-flock-to-schools-in-search-of-placements\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T16:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T14:15:25","slug":"namibia-desperate-times-in-zambezi-as-parents-flock-to-schools-in-search-of-placements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-desperate-times-in-zambezi-as-parents-flock-to-schools-in-search-of-placements\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Desperate Times in Zambezi &#8230; As Parents Flock to Schools in Search of Placements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Katima Mulilo \u2014 The start of the 2025 academic year has seen a surge of parents crowding schools across Katima Mulilo in search of placements for their children, particularly in critical grades such as grades 8 and 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Despite the opportunity to apply for placements in 2024, most parents failed to meet the deadlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Others cited relocation and other circumstances as reasons for their late applications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">One parent, who preferred anonymity, shared her dilemma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">&#8220;I recently moved to Katima Mulilo&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501150341.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>Katima Mulilo \u2014 The start of the 2025 academic year has seen a surge of parents crowding schools across Katima Mulilo in search of placements for their children, particularly in critical grades such as grades 8 and 10. Despite the opportunity to apply for placements in 2024, most parents failed to meet the deadlines. Others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188697,"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":[258,256,17200,17342,4706,724,257,9998,46999,6756,9020,254,6592,7392],"class_list":["post-188696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-desperate","tag-flock","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-parents","tag-placements","tag-schools","tag-search","tag-south-africa-today","tag-times","tag-zambezi"],"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\/188696","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=188696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}