{"id":194345,"date":"2025-03-23T22:22:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T20:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nine-women-in-cabinet-not-just-about-the-numbers-gender-activist-rosa-namises\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T22:22:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T20:22:46","slug":"namibia-nine-women-in-cabinet-not-just-about-the-numbers-gender-activist-rosa-namises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nine-women-in-cabinet-not-just-about-the-numbers-gender-activist-rosa-namises\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Nine Women in Cabinet Not Just About the Numbers &#8211; Gender Activist Rosa Namises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>GENDER and social activist Rosa Namises says having many women in key government positions does not guarantee change, and they would need to prove themselves.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">&#8220;It should be about the impact these women will have in those roles. We need to see change,&#8221; she said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">She said the new ministers must not collect salaries only.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Namises was reacting to president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah appointing eight women as heads of ministries, of which there are 14, with Lucia Witbooi as her second in command,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503230082.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>GENDER and social activist Rosa Namises says having many women in key government positions does not guarantee change, and they would need to prove themselves. &#8220;It should be about the impact these women will have in those roles. We need to see change,&#8221; she said on Sunday. She said the new ministers must not collect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194346,"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\/00661724:e78b356f1e30faa5f4333f5d33379642:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[8956,258,256,6467,6029,4706,724,50937,257,8967,22103,254,6524],"class_list":["post-194345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cabinet","tag-gender","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namises","tag-news","tag-numbers","tag-rosa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661724:e78b356f1e30faa5f4333f5d33379642:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194345","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=194345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}