{"id":194315,"date":"2025-03-23T10:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T08:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-rehoboth-community-in-fear-over-flood-damaged-bridge\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T10:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T08:21:17","slug":"namibia-rehoboth-community-in-fear-over-flood-damaged-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-rehoboth-community-in-fear-over-flood-damaged-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Rehoboth Community in Fear Over Flood-Damaged Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>Members of the Rehoboth community doing a daily commute to Windhoek for work say some of them slept safely in their beds during Thursday night, while others could not.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">This is after a bridge on the road between Windhoek and Rehoboth was damaged by a river in flood on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;Yesterday was really iconic. I with others, however, managed to cross the bridge, got a ride and arrived home safely,&#8221; Leroy Jansen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;I got home late, tired and stressed, but I am thankful to have made it home, because&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503210414.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>Members of the Rehoboth community doing a daily commute to Windhoek for work say some of them slept safely in their beds during Thursday night, while others could not. This is after a bridge on the road between Windhoek and Rehoboth was damaged by a river in flood on Thursday. &#8220;Yesterday was really iconic. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194316,"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":[258,256,11058,7963,12166,50935,4706,724,257,2358,254],"class_list":["post-194315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bridge","tag-community","tag-fear","tag-flooddamaged","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rehoboth","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/194315","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=194315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}