{"id":204165,"date":"2025-08-07T15:20:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-youth-games-volunteers-finally-paid-but-disappointed\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:20:57","slug":"namibia-youth-games-volunteers-finally-paid-but-disappointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-youth-games-volunteers-finally-paid-but-disappointed\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Youth Games Volunteers Finally Paid, but Disappointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>Volunteers and translators who worked during the Region 5 Youth Games in Windhoek say they are relieved to have finally been paid, but many remain disheartened by how the situation was handled.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Local organising committee (LOC) general manager Jacky Gertze yesterday confirmed that all outstanding payments were completed and attributed the delays to administrative and legal processes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;Volunteers were paid almost two weeks ago,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Team liaison officers were paid just yesterday (Monday)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508070215.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>Volunteers and translators who worked during the Region 5 Youth Games in Windhoek say they are relieved to have finally been paid, but many remain disheartened by how the situation was handled. Local organising committee (LOC) general manager Jacky Gertze yesterday confirmed that all outstanding payments were completed and attributed the delays to administrative and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204166,"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":[258,256,14378,8415,6731,4706,724,257,12206,254,15467,6276],"class_list":["post-204165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-disappointed","tag-finally","tag-games","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-paid","tag-south-africa-today","tag-volunteers","tag-youth"],"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\/204165","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=204165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}