{"id":201345,"date":"2025-07-01T14:02:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-gives-region-5-games-n127m-boost\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T12:02:54","slug":"namibia-govt-gives-region-5-games-n127m-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-gives-region-5-games-n127m-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Govt Gives Region 5 Games N$127m Boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>The government has made N$127 million available to ensure the smooth running of the African Union Sports Council Region 5 Games, which kick off this week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Speaking to Desert FM this week, Isack Hamata, the head of the subcommittee on ceremonies and entertainment, said: &#8220;We will have 13 ceremonies during the games, starting with the opening ceremony at Independence Stadium, which will be graced by president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">&#8220;We will close off the event with the lowering of the national flag&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507010197.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>The government has made N$127 million available to ensure the smooth running of the African Union Sports Council Region 5 Games, which kick off this week. Speaking to Desert FM this week, Isack Hamata, the head of the subcommittee on ceremonies and entertainment, said: &#8220;We will have 13 ceremonies during the games, starting with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201346,"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":[258,256,6557,6731,4357,51772,4706,724,257,6324,254],"class_list":["post-201345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boost","tag-games","tag-govt","tag-n127m","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-region","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\/201345","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=201345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}