{"id":198353,"date":"2025-05-18T12:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T10:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ex-da-mp-renaldo-gouws-settles-hate-speech-case-apologises-for-racist-video\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T12:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T10:25:11","slug":"namibia-ex-da-mp-renaldo-gouws-settles-hate-speech-case-apologises-for-racist-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ex-da-mp-renaldo-gouws-settles-hate-speech-case-apologises-for-racist-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Ex-DA MP Renaldo Gouws Settles Hate Speech Case, Apologises for Racist Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\"><em>Former Democratic Alliance member of Parliament Renaldo Gouws has apologised for a 15-year-old racist video that emerged after he was elected to public office. The apology is part of a settlement with the South African Human Rights Commission, which had brought a hate speech case against him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><strong>Former Democratic Alliance MP Renaldo Gouws has made a full and unconditional apology for a 15-year-old racist video he uploaded on YouTube, but later removed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The video resurfaced when he was sworn in as a <a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505160292.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>Former Democratic Alliance member of Parliament Renaldo Gouws has apologised for a 15-year-old racist video that emerged after he was elected to public office. The apology is part of a settlement with the South African Human Rights Commission, which had brought a hate speech case against him. Former Democratic Alliance MP Renaldo Gouws has made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198354,"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":[258,256,16269,6683,51373,48866,11715,4706,724,257,4552,48865,21305,254,8769,8066],"class_list":["post-198353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apologises","tag-case","tag-exda","tag-gouws","tag-hate","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-racist","tag-renaldo","tag-settles","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speech","tag-video"],"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\/198353","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=198353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}