{"id":192728,"date":"2025-03-03T18:36:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-spends-n30-million-on-flying-nujoma-across-namibia\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T18:36:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:36:28","slug":"namibia-govt-spends-n30-million-on-flying-nujoma-across-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-spends-n30-million-on-flying-nujoma-across-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Govt Spends N$30 Million On Flying Nujoma Across Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>The government will spend about N$30 million on expenses related to transporting founding president Sam Nujoma&#8217;s body across the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">This includes N$1 million for each military plane trip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Nujoma died in Windhoek on 8 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">At least 5 000 troops were mobilised for the procession of with his body and a state funeral, which will conclude with his burial at Heroes&#8217; Acre tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The government has not been forthcoming on the cost of Nujoma&#8217;s funeral proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The media has over the past&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503030053.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>The government will spend about N$30 million on expenses related to transporting founding president Sam Nujoma&#8217;s body across the country. This includes N$1 million for each military plane trip. Nujoma died in Windhoek on 8 February. At least 5 000 troops were mobilised for the procession of with his body and a state funeral, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":192729,"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":[258,256,9805,4357,5118,21079,4706,724,257,16690,254,9939],"class_list":["post-192728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-flying","tag-govt","tag-million","tag-n30","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nujoma","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spends"],"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\/192728","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=192728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}