{"id":191632,"date":"2025-02-17T06:07:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T04:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-urges-mourning-etiquette-but-allows-some-events-to-proceed-after-nujomas-death\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T06:07:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T04:07:57","slug":"namibia-govt-urges-mourning-etiquette-but-allows-some-events-to-proceed-after-nujomas-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-urges-mourning-etiquette-but-allows-some-events-to-proceed-after-nujomas-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Govt Urges Mourning Etiquette, but Allows Some Events to Proceed After Nujoma&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>Hand clapping and partying are not in line with the &#8220;decorum&#8221; of national mourning, but there will be no repercussions for this.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Deputy minister of information and communication technology Modestus Amutse yesterday at a press conference in Windhoek announced national mourning protocol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">This follows the death of founding president Sam Nujoma on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Amutse said weddings can go ahead as planned, and there will be no consequences for organisers of events where hand clapping takes place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">&#8220;That&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502130068.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>Hand clapping and partying are not in line with the &#8220;decorum&#8221; of national mourning, but there will be no repercussions for this. Deputy minister of information and communication technology Modestus Amutse yesterday at a press conference in Windhoek announced national mourning protocol. This follows the death of founding president Sam Nujoma on Saturday. Amutse said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":191633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00470486:cd942b2303c6b1e9a4b2c21d6ad97f0e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6974,50649,16390,4357,11303,4706,724,257,9928,24697,254,6810],"class_list":["post-191632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-death","tag-etiquette","tag-events","tag-govt","tag-mourning","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nujomas","tag-proceed","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00470486:cd942b2303c6b1e9a4b2c21d6ad97f0e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191632","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=191632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}