{"id":198849,"date":"2025-05-26T12:49:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-steenkamp-calls-for-greater-investment-in-athletes-at-regional-sport-awards\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T12:49:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:49:35","slug":"namibia-steenkamp-calls-for-greater-investment-in-athletes-at-regional-sport-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-steenkamp-calls-for-greater-investment-in-athletes-at-regional-sport-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Steenkamp Calls for Greater Investment in Athletes At Regional Sport Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Namibia&#8217;s education, innovation, youth, sport, arts, and culture minister Sanet Steenkamp has called on southern African governments to increase investment in athlete development.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Steenkamp was speaking at the seventh Regional Annual Sports Awards in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking in her capacity as the chairperson of the African Union Sports Council Region 5 Council of Ministers, Steenkamp praised Zimbabwe for its &#8220;outstanding hospitality&#8221; and for hosting &#8220;a truly memorable and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505260240.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>Namibia&#8217;s education, innovation, youth, sport, arts, and culture minister Sanet Steenkamp has called on southern African governments to increase investment in athlete development. Steenkamp was speaking at the seventh Regional Annual Sports Awards in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Saturday evening. Speaking in her capacity as the chairperson of the African Union Sports Council Region 5 Council [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198850,"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":[258,256,7884,6526,6137,9486,6018,4706,724,257,4268,254,9325,37373],"class_list":["post-198849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-athletes","tag-awards","tag-calls","tag-greater","tag-investment","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sport","tag-steenkamp"],"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\/198849","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=198849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}