{"id":200900,"date":"2025-06-25T13:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swapo-remembers-moses-amweelo-as-loyal-leader-and-freedom-fighter-with-strong-work-ethic\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T13:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T11:51:19","slug":"namibia-swapo-remembers-moses-amweelo-as-loyal-leader-and-freedom-fighter-with-strong-work-ethic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swapo-remembers-moses-amweelo-as-loyal-leader-and-freedom-fighter-with-strong-work-ethic\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Swapo Remembers Moses Amweelo As Loyal Leader and Freedom Fighter With Strong Work Ethic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>Swapo secretary general Sophia Shaningwa has described the late Moses Amweelo as a loyal, hardworking party member and respected former Cabinet minister.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The late former minister of works and transport was a positive example to Swapo, Shaningwa says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Amweelo, who was born on 25 May 1952 at Okatana in the Oshana region, died in a hospital in Windhoek on Monday night, following a battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">During Namibia&#8217;s struggle for independence, he was a freedom fighter and went into exile for a number&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506250088.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>Swapo secretary general Sophia Shaningwa has described the late Moses Amweelo as a loyal, hardworking party member and respected former Cabinet minister. The late former minister of works and transport was a positive example to Swapo, Shaningwa says. Amweelo, who was born on 25 May 1952 at Okatana in the Oshana region, died in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200901,"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":[258,256,51728,24738,5058,7636,7079,20136,11127,4706,724,257,11430,254,6948,1664,6100],"class_list":["post-200900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amweelo","tag-ethic","tag-fighter","tag-freedom","tag-leader","tag-loyal","tag-moses","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-remembers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strong","tag-swapo","tag-work"],"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\/200900","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=200900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}