{"id":194277,"date":"2025-03-22T19:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nandi-ndaitwah-in-history-books-sworn-in-as-first-woman-president\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T19:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:28:10","slug":"namibia-nandi-ndaitwah-in-history-books-sworn-in-as-first-woman-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nandi-ndaitwah-in-history-books-sworn-in-as-first-woman-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Nandi-Ndaitwah in History Books, Sworn in As First Woman President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah etched her name into the annals of history on Friday after being sworn in as the first woman president for Namibia since independence 35 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">She was sworn in by Chief Justice Peter Shivute at State House in full support of various heads of state from the African continent and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Some of the presidents in attendance included Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o of Angola, Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia, Daniel Chapo of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503210415.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>Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah etched her name into the annals of history on Friday after being sworn in as the first woman president for Namibia since independence 35 years ago. She was sworn in by Chief Justice Peter Shivute at State House in full support of various heads of state from the African continent and beyond. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661721:58886ccef49c057192c0f1e0b28e3a54:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,14167,7099,4706,724,20099,257,2450,254,9141,4307],"class_list":["post-194277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-books","tag-history","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nandindaitwah","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sworn","tag-woman"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661721:58886ccef49c057192c0f1e0b28e3a54:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194277","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=194277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}