{"id":199530,"date":"2025-06-05T01:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T23:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-tributes-pour-in-for-bishop-makari\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T01:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T23:09:09","slug":"namibia-tributes-pour-in-for-bishop-makari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-tributes-pour-in-for-bishop-makari\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Tributes Pour in for Bishop Makari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Messages of condolence are continuing to pour in for the fallen Church of Africa deputy bishop, Ngetujame Zacheus Makari, who died on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Makari was an instrumental figure in society and admired by many.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">He was a community activist in addition to spreading the biblical gospel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Members of his church and community valued his contributions dearly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Mburumba Tjitunga Ndjitaviua, Church of Africa Evangelist, said the church is still reeling in shock, following Makari&#8217;s demise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Ndjitaviua described&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506040248.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>Messages of condolence are continuing to pour in for the fallen Church of Africa deputy bishop, Ngetujame Zacheus Makari, who died on Saturday. Makari was an instrumental figure in society and admired by many. He was a community activist in addition to spreading the biblical gospel. Members of his church and community valued his contributions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199531,"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":[258,256,8125,51541,4706,724,257,10952,254,10951],"class_list":["post-199530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bishop","tag-makari","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pour","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tributes"],"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\/199530","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=199530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}