{"id":203427,"date":"2025-07-28T02:59:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ndf-helicopter-hired-for-n22-000-says-ministry-spokesperson\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T02:59:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T00:59:54","slug":"namibia-ndf-helicopter-hired-for-n22-000-says-ministry-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ndf-helicopter-hired-for-n22-000-says-ministry-spokesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: NDF Helicopter Hired for N$22 000 Says Ministry Spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs says the total cost of services rendered to the Miss Namibia Organisation was N$22 470.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Ministry spokesperson colonel Petrus Shilumbu notes this in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">His response comes after public outcry over the alleged misuse of state funds to ferry individuals to the pageant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Shilumbu says a written request was sent to the ministry on 10 July for the support of a helicopter and flight\/pilot officers from the organisers of the Miss Namibia&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507240668.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs says the total cost of services rendered to the Miss Namibia Organisation was N$22 470. Ministry spokesperson colonel Petrus Shilumbu notes this in a statement on Tuesday. His response comes after public outcry over the alleged misuse of state funds to ferry individuals to the pageant. Shilumbu says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":203428,"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":[258,256,11103,27145,6857,28080,4706,724,29865,257,254,7181],"class_list":["post-203427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-helicopter","tag-hired","tag-ministry","tag-n22","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-ndf","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spokesperson"],"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\/203427","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=203427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}