{"id":200648,"date":"2025-06-22T01:43:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T23:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mixed-bag-of-results-in-by-election\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T01:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T23:43:05","slug":"namibia-mixed-bag-of-results-in-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mixed-bag-of-results-in-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Mixed Bag of Results in By-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8211; After five years under opposition control, the Swapo party has made a strong political comeback in Kamanjab constituency by winning Tuesday&#8217;s by-election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The win is not just symbolic but marks a turning point in Swapo&#8217;s efforts to restore confidence and reconnect with local communities ahead of local and regional elections in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Candidate Nikodemus Hamutenya emerged victorious with 1 090 votes, beating the United Democratic Front (UDF) and Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), who&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200508.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>&#8211; After five years under opposition control, the Swapo party has made a strong political comeback in Kamanjab constituency by winning Tuesday&#8217;s by-election. The win is not just symbolic but marks a turning point in Swapo&#8217;s efforts to restore confidence and reconnect with local communities ahead of local and regional elections in November. Candidate Nikodemus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200649,"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":[258,256,11468,9913,8467,4706,724,257,6407,254],"class_list":["post-200648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bag","tag-byelection","tag-mixed","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-results","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\/200648","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=200648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}