{"id":194391,"date":"2025-03-24T10:23:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T08:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-nandi-ndaitwah-pays-homage-to-sadc-war-heroes\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T10:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T08:23:52","slug":"southern-africa-nandi-ndaitwah-pays-homage-to-sadc-war-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-nandi-ndaitwah-pays-homage-to-sadc-war-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Nandi Ndaitwah Pays Homage to SADC War Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on Sunday honoured the fallen heroes of the Southern African Development Community who fought for the region&#8217;s freedom and peace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">She said this in commemoration of Southern Africa Liberation Day, observed on 23 March every year to pay tribute to the men and women in the region who sacrificed their lives for freedom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The day commemorates the battle of Cuito Cuanavale that occurred in Angola&#8217;s province of Cuando Cubango in 1988 between the Angolan army together with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503240053.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 Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on Sunday honoured the fallen heroes of the Southern African Development Community who fought for the region&#8217;s freedom and peace. She said this in commemoration of Southern Africa Liberation Day, observed on 23 March every year to pay tribute to the men and women in the region who sacrificed their lives for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194392,"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":[258,256,9171,8015,724,5904,50947,257,7223,1412,254,7153,6618],"class_list":["post-194391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-heroes","tag-homage","tag-namibia-news","tag-nandi","tag-ndaitwah","tag-news","tag-pays","tag-sadc","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-war"],"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\/194391","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=194391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}