{"id":204074,"date":"2025-08-06T03:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-president-says-women-can-influence-democracy\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T03:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:18:03","slug":"namibia-president-says-women-can-influence-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-president-says-women-can-influence-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: President Says Women Can Influence Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says women can influence the growth of democracy as they are the majority of voters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">She said this on Saturday at the 63rd Anniversary of the Pan-African Women&#8217;s Day celebration at the Independence Arena in Katutura, Windhoek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The day, celebrated on 31 July, remembers the struggle for independence and self-determination across Africa. The date marks the day in 1962 when African women gathered in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and formed the Pan-African Women&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508050051.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>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says women can influence the growth of democracy as they are the majority of voters. She said this on Saturday at the 63rd Anniversary of the Pan-African Women&#8217;s Day celebration at the Independence Arena in Katutura, Windhoek. The day, celebrated on 31 July, remembers the struggle for independence and self-determination across Africa. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204075,"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":[258,256,4854,10816,4706,724,257,2450,254,6524],"class_list":["post-204074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-democracy","tag-influence","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-women"],"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\/204074","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=204074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}