{"id":192502,"date":"2025-02-28T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-supreme-court-dismisses-presidential-election-challenge\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T18:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T16:30:06","slug":"namibia-supreme-court-dismisses-presidential-election-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-supreme-court-dismisses-presidential-election-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Supreme Court Dismisses Presidential Election Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>Five judges of the Supreme Court have unanimously dismissed an attempt to have Namibia&#8217;s 2024 presidential election declared invalid and have a fresh election held.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The court dismissed the poll challenge of Independent Patriots for Change leader Panduleni Itula and Landless People&#8217;s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi in a judgement delivered on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">Chief justice Peter Shivute, who read a summary of the court&#8217;s 80-page judgement, said the court found that president Nangolo Mumba had the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502280498.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>Five judges of the Supreme Court have unanimously dismissed an attempt to have Namibia&#8217;s 2024 presidential election declared invalid and have a fresh election held. The court dismissed the poll challenge of Independent Patriots for Change leader Panduleni Itula and Landless People&#8217;s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi in a judgement delivered on Friday morning. Chief justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":192503,"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":[258,256,7485,6185,12843,3119,4706,724,257,6438,254,9498],"class_list":["post-192502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenge","tag-court","tag-dismisses","tag-election","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme"],"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\/192502","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=192502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}