{"id":194142,"date":"2025-03-21T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nandi-ndaitwah-pledges-youth-empowerment-job-creation-once-in-office\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T07:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:24:00","slug":"namibia-nandi-ndaitwah-pledges-youth-empowerment-job-creation-once-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nandi-ndaitwah-pledges-youth-empowerment-job-creation-once-in-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Nandi-Ndaitwah Pledges Youth Empowerment, Job Creation Once in Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>President-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says once she takes office, her focus will be on youth empowerment, job creation and the eradication of poverty in Namibia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Speaking at a church service at the Onamutai Anglican Church at Ongwediva on Sunday, Nandi-Ndaitwah said her administration will work to address poverty and unemployment for the benefit of all Namibians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The president-elect said as she is preparing to take the helm of the government, she would like to urge every Namibian to join her and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503200290.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>President-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says once she takes office, her focus will be on youth empowerment, job creation and the eradication of poverty in Namibia. Speaking at a church service at the Onamutai Anglican Church at Ongwediva on Sunday, Nandi-Ndaitwah said her administration will work to address poverty and unemployment for the benefit of all Namibians. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194143,"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":[258,256,11743,6461,9679,4706,724,20099,257,8089,7287,254,6276],"class_list":["post-194142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-creation","tag-empowerment","tag-job","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nandindaitwah","tag-news","tag-office","tag-pledges","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youth"],"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\/194142","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=194142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}