{"id":196376,"date":"2025-04-19T11:21:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T09:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-safeguard-job-opportunities-for-namibian-youth-amutenya\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T09:21:19","slug":"namibia-safeguard-job-opportunities-for-namibian-youth-amutenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-safeguard-job-opportunities-for-namibian-youth-amutenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Safeguard Job Opportunities for Namibian Youth &#8211; Amutenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Swapo lawmaker Willem Amutenya has urged the government to create opportunities for informal and small-scale businesses, particularly for young Namibians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">In his maiden speech, Amutenya highlighted the necessity to safeguard existing job opportunities from foreign enterprises, while advocating stricter supervision of foreign employment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">He also suggested the government conducts inspections to evaluate the quantity of foreign workers employed, their credentials, and whether skills are being&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504180462.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>Swapo lawmaker Willem Amutenya has urged the government to create opportunities for informal and small-scale businesses, particularly for young Namibians. In his maiden speech, Amutenya highlighted the necessity to safeguard existing job opportunities from foreign enterprises, while advocating stricter supervision of foreign employment. He also suggested the government conducts inspections to evaluate the quantity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":196377,"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":[258,256,51166,9679,4706,724,6953,257,13281,13376,254,6276],"class_list":["post-196376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amutenya","tag-job","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian","tag-news","tag-opportunities","tag-safeguard","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youth"],"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\/196376","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=196376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}