{"id":193250,"date":"2025-03-10T06:59:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T04:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-information-ministry-denies-media-restrictions-at-nujomas-funeral\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T06:59:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T04:59:49","slug":"namibia-information-ministry-denies-media-restrictions-at-nujomas-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-information-ministry-denies-media-restrictions-at-nujomas-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Information Ministry Denies Media Restrictions At Nujoma&#8217;s Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">&#8230; Reporter forced to delete mausoleum footage<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><strong>The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology has denied restricting the media during founding president Sam Nujoma&#8217;s funeral at Heroes&#8217; Acre in Windhoek on Saturday &#8211; but journalists disagree.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Some reporters and photographers say the Namibian Defence Force (NDF) only allowed Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) reporters and personnel from the information ministry and Office of the President near Nujoma&#8217;s mausoleum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Excluded&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503040029.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>&#8230; Reporter forced to delete mausoleum footage The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology has denied restricting the media during founding president Sam Nujoma&#8217;s funeral at Heroes&#8217; Acre in Windhoek on Saturday &#8211; but journalists disagree. Some reporters and photographers say the Namibian Defence Force (NDF) only allowed Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) reporters and personnel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193251,"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":[258,256,7651,7945,422,4959,6857,4706,724,257,9928,7293,254],"class_list":["post-193250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-denies","tag-funeral","tag-information","tag-media","tag-ministry","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nujomas","tag-restrictions","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\/193250","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=193250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}