{"id":200683,"date":"2025-06-22T13:43:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T11:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-on-the-spot-with-eveline-de-klerk-benjamin-transforming-swakopmund-one-day-at-a-time\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T13:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T11:43:49","slug":"namibia-on-the-spot-with-eveline-de-klerk-benjamin-transforming-swakopmund-one-day-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-on-the-spot-with-eveline-de-klerk-benjamin-transforming-swakopmund-one-day-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: On the Spot With Eveline De Klerk &#8211; Benjamin Transforming Swakopmund &#8211; One Day At a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>Swakopmund has taken a unique route to boost the town&#8217;s economic and development agenda, especially in areas such as medical, sport, tourism and educational institutions, making it a town of choice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\"><em>New Era jo<\/em>urnalist <strong><em>Eveline de Klerk (NE)<\/em><\/strong> sat down with CEO <strong><em>Alfeus Benjamin (AB)<\/em><\/strong> to talk about the transformation of Swakopmund as well as how council and administration share a joint passion to put the town first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\"><strong>Operations at Swakopmund seem to be smooth sailing, what&#8217;s the secret behind this&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200507.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>Swakopmund has taken a unique route to boost the town&#8217;s economic and development agenda, especially in areas such as medical, sport, tourism and educational institutions, making it a town of choice. New Era journalist Eveline de Klerk (NE) sat down with CEO Alfeus Benjamin (AB) to talk about the transformation of Swakopmund as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200684,"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":[258,256,15558,7165,51699,43765,4706,724,257,254,7506,3680,6599,12606],"class_list":["post-200683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benjamin","tag-day","tag-eveline","tag-klerk","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spot","tag-swakopmund","tag-time","tag-transforming"],"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\/200683","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=200683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}