{"id":196041,"date":"2025-04-14T23:11:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T21:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-french-connections-and-hopes-for-better-health\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T23:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T21:11:31","slug":"namibia-french-connections-and-hopes-for-better-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-french-connections-and-hopes-for-better-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: French Connections and Hopes for Better Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Esperance Luvindao AS the new minister of health and social services embodies hope for people&#8217;s health in Namibia.In French, her name means exactly that &#8211; hope.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">I happened to be in Paris when the news of her appointment was announced, and there is a great deal this could bring to our country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Luvindao is in fact the first Namibian of francophone origin in our Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">\\Her late mother was my first French teacher, who told us she had come from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with her husband&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504140675.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>Esperance Luvindao AS the new minister of health and social services embodies hope for people&#8217;s health in Namibia.In French, her name means exactly that &#8211; hope. I happened to be in Paris when the news of her appointment was announced, and there is a great deal this could bring to our country. Luvindao is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":196042,"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":[258,256,17559,410,5731,10002,4706,724,257,254],"class_list":["post-196041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-connections","tag-french","tag-health","tag-hopes","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","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\/196041","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=196041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}