{"id":199868,"date":"2025-06-10T01:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-concludes-fisheries-redress-consultations\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T01:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:19:06","slug":"namibia-govt-concludes-fisheries-redress-consultations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-concludes-fisheries-redress-consultations\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Govt Concludes Fisheries Redress Consultations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>The government has concluded consultations on the employment redress programme in the fisheries sector, aimed at addressing long-standing employment challenges resulting from industrial disruptions dating back to 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Approximately 280 of the remaining fishermen, some of whom have been demonstrating since last year, are set to return to work following the signing of new agreements with seven companies that will absorb them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Speaking at the closing of the consultations on Friday evening, minister&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506090448.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 government has concluded consultations on the employment redress programme in the fisheries sector, aimed at addressing long-standing employment challenges resulting from industrial disruptions dating back to 2015. Approximately 280 of the remaining fishermen, some of whom have been demonstrating since last year, are set to return to work following the signing of new agreements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199869,"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":[258,256,6159,8293,7087,4357,4706,724,257,18385,254],"class_list":["post-199868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-concludes","tag-consultations","tag-fisheries","tag-govt","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-redress","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/199868","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=199868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}