{"id":193756,"date":"2025-03-17T07:14:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T05:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-launches-25mw-solar-plant-honouring-freedom-fighter-advancing-energy-transition\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T07:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T05:14:27","slug":"namibia-launches-25mw-solar-plant-honouring-freedom-fighter-advancing-energy-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-launches-25mw-solar-plant-honouring-freedom-fighter-advancing-energy-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Launches 25mw Solar Plant, Honouring Freedom Fighter, Advancing Energy Transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Speech by Namibian president Nangolo Mbumba at the inauguration of the 25MW Khan Solar PV Plant, Usakos, in the Erongo region, 6 March 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">I am delighted to join you this morning to launch the 25 megawatt Khan Solar PV Plant here at Usakos in honour of Moses Mague \/\/Garoeb, a gallant patriot and staunch freedom fighter who dedicated his life to the cause of Namibia&#8217;s independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"68\">Namibia&#8217;s freedom fighters were driven by the desire not only to free Namibians from colonial apartheid bondage but&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503130361.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>Speech by Namibian president Nangolo Mbumba at the inauguration of the 25MW Khan Solar PV Plant, Usakos, in the Erongo region, 6 March 2025. I am delighted to join you this morning to launch the 25 megawatt Khan Solar PV Plant here at Usakos in honour of Moses Mague \/\/Garoeb, a gallant patriot and staunch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[50883,27236,258,256,7424,5058,7636,35698,5957,4706,724,257,8489,4631,254,9711],"class_list":["post-193756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-25mw","tag-advancing","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-energy","tag-fighter","tag-freedom","tag-honouring","tag-launches","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-plant","tag-solar","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transition"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193756","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=193756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}