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In Tanzania, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is known as ‘Mama Swapo’, a title bestowed upon her by the late president Julius Nyerere, who instilled in her the belief that corruption is treason. It is a principle she says she still holds dear.<\/em><\/p>\n On Friday, Nandi-Ndaitwah was sworn in as Namibia’s first woman president, making history in her own right.<\/p>\n The following day, she revealed a new-look Cabinet of 14 ministers, a reduction from 21 in the previous administration. This includes eight women and six men,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> In Tanzania, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is known as ‘Mama Swapo’, a title bestowed upon her by the late president Julius Nyerere, who instilled in her the belief that corruption is treason. It is a principle she says she still holds dear. On Friday, Nandi-Ndaitwah was sworn in as Namibia’s first woman president, making history in her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194473,"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":[258,256,7439,6467,15052,4706,724,50957,257,14777,254,5056],"class_list":["post-194472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bold","tag-cabinet","tag-direction","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nandindaitwahs","tag-news","tag-shape","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takes"],"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\/194472","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=194472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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