{"id":195522,"date":"2025-04-06T10:52:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T08:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-itula-ditches-official-opposition-tag\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T10:52:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T08:52:45","slug":"namibia-itula-ditches-official-opposition-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-itula-ditches-official-opposition-tag\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Itula Ditches Official Opposition Tag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Independent Patriots for Change chief patriot Panduleni Itula yesterday threw the official opposition tag out of the window, declaring it unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">While the Constitution outlines governmental positions, such as the president, prime minister and members of Parliament, it does not establish the position of opposition leader, the dentist-turned-politician said. &#8220;After careful analysis, it is evident that the office of the leader of the official opposition in Namibia lacks any proper legal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504040255.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>Independent Patriots for Change chief patriot Panduleni Itula yesterday threw the official opposition tag out of the window, declaring it unconstitutional. While the Constitution outlines governmental positions, such as the president, prime minister and members of Parliament, it does not establish the position of opposition leader, the dentist-turned-politician said. &#8220;After careful analysis, it is evident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":195523,"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":[258,256,16536,31699,4706,724,257,5092,5675,254,13088],"class_list":["post-195522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ditches","tag-itula","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-official","tag-opposition","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tag"],"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\/195522","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=195522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}