{"id":200027,"date":"2025-06-13T01:24:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T23:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nyc-board-blocks-n345-000-legal-bill-over-unauthorised-probe\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T01:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T23:24:49","slug":"namibia-nyc-board-blocks-n345-000-legal-bill-over-unauthorised-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nyc-board-blocks-n345-000-legal-bill-over-unauthorised-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: NYC Board Blocks N$345 000 Legal Bill Over &#8216;Unauthorised&#8217; Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Chairperson, board clash over director&#8217;s disciplinary case<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><strong>The National Youth Council (NYC) board has rejected a N$345 000 legal bill, accusing interim chairperson Beverly Silas-!Garas of commissioning an unauthorised investigation into the council&#8217;s director.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The board says Silas-!Garas independently instructed Metcalfe Beukes Attorneys to probe matters regarding NYC director Calista Schwartz-Gowases, which had already been addressed by a ministerial investigation and the courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The board&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506120648.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>Chairperson, board clash over director&#8217;s disciplinary case The National Youth Council (NYC) board has rejected a N$345 000 legal bill, accusing interim chairperson Beverly Silas-!Garas of commissioning an unauthorised investigation into the council&#8217;s director. The board says Silas-!Garas independently instructed Metcalfe Beukes Attorneys to probe matters regarding NYC director Calista Schwartz-Gowases, which had already been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200028,"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":[258,256,7292,7415,6727,6393,51605,4706,724,257,48076,5805,254,14540],"class_list":["post-200027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-blocks","tag-board","tag-legal","tag-n345","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-probe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unauthorised"],"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\/200027","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=200027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}