{"id":198400,"date":"2025-05-19T12:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-walvis-bay-prioritises-road-repairs-in-budget\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T12:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:27:16","slug":"namibia-walvis-bay-prioritises-road-repairs-in-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-walvis-bay-prioritises-road-repairs-in-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Walvis Bay Prioritises Road Repairs in Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>The Walvis Bay Town Council has identified the urgent repair of infrastructure, particularly road maintenance and pothole repairs, as a key priority in its budget for the 2025\/26 financial year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">This was revealed during the budget speech by management committee chairperson Richard Hoaeb on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;This area represents a significant backlog, and the deteriorating state of our roads poses challenges to safety, efficiency and quality of life,&#8221; Hoaeb said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">He stated that the council has adopted a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505190176.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 Walvis Bay Town Council has identified the urgent repair of infrastructure, particularly road maintenance and pothole repairs, as a key priority in its budget for the 2025\/26 financial year. This was revealed during the budget speech by management committee chairperson Richard Hoaeb on Friday. &#8220;This area represents a significant backlog, and the deteriorating state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198401,"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":[258,256,8611,6080,4706,724,257,10062,13174,7414,254,10438],"class_list":["post-198400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bay","tag-budget","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-prioritises","tag-repairs","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-walvis"],"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\/198400","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=198400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}