{"id":194092,"date":"2025-03-20T19:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-meekulu-netumbo-its-your-turn-to-sleep-or-not\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T19:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:23:15","slug":"namibia-meekulu-netumbo-its-your-turn-to-sleep-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-meekulu-netumbo-its-your-turn-to-sleep-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Meekulu Netumbo, It&#8217;s Your Turn to Sleep, or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>Dear president-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, regardless of political affiliations, I believe most Namibians are happy with your appointment as president of Namibia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Much of our satisfaction comes from the hope that as a woman you will replace the politics of the belly with policies grown from caring hearts and sensible minds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Indeed, Namibia&#8217;s government is desperately in need of direction based on public service, humanity and common sense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Not only has the preoccupation with the belly cost us all&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503200296.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>Dear president-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, regardless of political affiliations, I believe most Namibians are happy with your appointment as president of Namibia. Much of our satisfaction comes from the hope that as a woman you will replace the politics of the belly with policies grown from caring hearts and sensible minds. Indeed, Namibia&#8217;s government is desperately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194093,"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":[258,256,50910,4706,724,20098,257,16906,254,7101],"class_list":["post-194092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-meekulu","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-netumbo","tag-news","tag-sleep","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turn"],"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\/194092","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=194092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}