{"id":200770,"date":"2025-06-24T01:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-no-preventative-maintenance-policy-more-bridges-to-collapse\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T01:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:47:08","slug":"namibia-no-preventative-maintenance-policy-more-bridges-to-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-no-preventative-maintenance-policy-more-bridges-to-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: No Preventative Maintenance Policy &#8211; More Bridges to Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">During the recent strategic planning workshop of the Ministry of Works and Transport, the minister, Hon Veikko Nekundi said the government needs a policy reform to maintain its public infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">According to Nekundi, having a preventative maintenance policy is a cost-effective approach to take care of public infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t have a preventative maintenance policy in place. How can we as a government have such big infrastructure, yet we don&#8217;t have a maintenance plan or policy? We must&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506230420.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>During the recent strategic planning workshop of the Ministry of Works and Transport, the minister, Hon Veikko Nekundi said the government needs a policy reform to maintain its public infrastructure. According to Nekundi, having a preventative maintenance policy is a cost-effective approach to take care of public infrastructure. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have a preventative maintenance policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200771,"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":[258,256,16824,9952,13502,4706,724,257,6470,33091,254],"class_list":["post-200770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bridges","tag-collapse","tag-maintenance","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-preventative","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\/200770","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=200770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}