{"id":196899,"date":"2025-04-27T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swapo-mps-secret-ballot-under-siege-party-denies-spying-on-mps\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T11:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T09:38:10","slug":"namibia-swapo-mps-secret-ballot-under-siege-party-denies-spying-on-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swapo-mps-secret-ballot-under-siege-party-denies-spying-on-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Swapo MPs&#8217; Secret Ballot &#8216;Under Siege&#8217; &#8230; Party Denies Spying On MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The ruling Swapo Party has denied spying on its Members of Parliament (MPs) following the surprise electoral defeat of one of its own, Fenny Tutjavi, to the Landless People&#8217;s Movement&#8217;s Utaara Mootu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Swapo MPs have since been scratching their heads over who among them voted for Mootu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The duo squared off for the position of deputy chairperson of the Standing Committee on International Relations, Defence and Security. Swapo occupies 13 seats on the said committee, leaving 11 to the opposition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">On&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504250201.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>The ruling Swapo Party has denied spying on its Members of Parliament (MPs) following the surprise electoral defeat of one of its own, Fenny Tutjavi, to the Landless People&#8217;s Movement&#8217;s Utaara Mootu. Swapo MPs have since been scratching their heads over who among them voted for Mootu. The duo squared off for the position of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":196900,"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":[258,256,9240,7651,7260,4706,724,257,7024,6860,4940,254,1872,1664],"class_list":["post-196899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ballot","tag-denies","tag-mps","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-party","tag-secret","tag-siege","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spying","tag-swapo"],"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\/196899","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=196899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}