{"id":197591,"date":"2025-05-07T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibian-mps-propose-one-off-veteran-payment-to-cut-budget-costs\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T10:00:30","slug":"namibian-mps-propose-one-off-veteran-payment-to-cut-budget-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibian-mps-propose-one-off-veteran-payment-to-cut-budget-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibian MPs Propose One-Off Veteran Payment to Cut Budget Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>Several members of parliament (MPs) have proposed a one-off lump sum payment to veterans to cut costs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Deputy minister of defence and veterans affairs Charles Mubita last week announced that a gratuity lump sum payment, totaling N$37.1 million, was distributed to 906 beneficiaries. This information was revealed during his presentation of the ministry&#8217;s 2025\/26 budget, which exceeds N$1.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Mubita said the highest cost driver in the budget allocation was the payment of monthly grants to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505070094.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>Several members of parliament (MPs) have proposed a one-off lump sum payment to veterans to cut costs. Deputy minister of defence and veterans affairs Charles Mubita last week announced that a gratuity lump sum payment, totaling N$37.1 million, was distributed to 906 beneficiaries. This information was revealed during his presentation of the ministry&#8217;s 2025\/26 budget, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":197592,"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":[258,256,6080,11509,8021,7260,724,6953,257,38895,10122,23098,254,8608],"class_list":["post-197591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-budget","tag-costs","tag-cut","tag-mps","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian","tag-news","tag-oneoff","tag-payment","tag-propose","tag-south-africa-today","tag-veteran"],"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\/197591","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=197591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}