{"id":192850,"date":"2025-03-05T06:39:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T04:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mourns-footballs-exemplary-gentleman\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T06:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T04:39:52","slug":"namibia-mourns-footballs-exemplary-gentleman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mourns-footballs-exemplary-gentleman\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Mourns Football&#8217;s &#8216;Exemplary Gentleman&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>The nation has lost one of its most &#8220;committed and genuine&#8221; sport administrators following the death of Namibia Football Association (NFA) secretary general Charles Siyauya on Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This was shared by Namibia Sports Commission chief administrator Freddy Mwiya, who was due to meet with Siyauya (49) later the same day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Siyauya was appointed to head the NFA secretariat for five years on 12 April 2024, becoming the first official from the Zambezi region to serve at that level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;It is very sad&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503040282.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 nation has lost one of its most &#8220;committed and genuine&#8221; sport administrators following the death of Namibia Football Association (NFA) secretary general Charles Siyauya on Monday. This was shared by Namibia Sports Commission chief administrator Freddy Mwiya, who was due to meet with Siyauya (49) later the same day. Siyauya was appointed to head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":192851,"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":[258,256,31867,19252,36779,9061,4706,724,257,254],"class_list":["post-192850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-exemplary","tag-footballs","tag-gentleman","tag-mourns","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/192850","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=192850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}