{"id":196393,"date":"2025-04-19T23:21:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T21:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-seven-seaters-drive-economy-nekundi\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T23:21:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T21:21:59","slug":"namibia-seven-seaters-drive-economy-nekundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-seven-seaters-drive-economy-nekundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Seven-Seaters Drive Economy &#8211; Nekundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Transport minister Veikko Nekundi says the full-blown seven-seaters&#8217; association plays an integral role in the country as drivers contribute to the country&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">&#8220;They are the ones who ensure that citizens are enabled to travel in-between towns, as Namibia is a vast country with large distances to travel. The seven-seaters also participate in the economic mainstream of the country; therefore, they are very important,&#8221; he said when he met members of the association recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">He noted that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504180461.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>Transport minister Veikko Nekundi says the full-blown seven-seaters&#8217; association plays an integral role in the country as drivers contribute to the country&#8217;s economy. &#8220;They are the ones who ensure that citizens are enabled to travel in-between towns, as Namibia is a vast country with large distances to travel. The seven-seaters also participate in the economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":196394,"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":[258,256,13716,5762,4706,724,15704,257,37917,254],"class_list":["post-196393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drive","tag-economy","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nekundi","tag-news","tag-sevenseaters","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\/196393","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=196393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}