{"id":204897,"date":"2025-08-18T03:43:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-president-nandi-ndaitwah-celebrates-mbumbas-84th-birthday\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T03:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T01:43:53","slug":"namibia-president-nandi-ndaitwah-celebrates-mbumbas-84th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-president-nandi-ndaitwah-celebrates-mbumbas-84th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: President Nandi-Ndaitwah Celebrates Mbumba&#8217;s 84th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on Friday hailed former president Nangolo Mbumba as a dedicated servant to the nation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">She said this in celebration of Mbumba&#8217;s 84th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">&#8220;I express my warmest congratulations and heartfelt wishes for continued good health, strength, and success. His excellency comrade Mbumba&#8217;s lifelong commitment and servant leadership to the people of Namibia during the liberation struggle, establishing an independent Namibia, and as the fourth president, remain an indelible&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508150201.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 on Friday hailed former president Nangolo Mbumba as a dedicated servant to the nation. She said this in celebration of Mbumba&#8217;s 84th birthday. &#8220;I express my warmest congratulations and heartfelt wishes for continued good health, strength, and success. His excellency comrade Mbumba&#8217;s lifelong commitment and servant leadership to the people of Namibia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204898,"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":[19669,258,256,15911,6547,50075,4706,724,20099,257,2450,254],"class_list":["post-204897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-84th","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-birthday","tag-celebrates","tag-mbumbas","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nandindaitwah","tag-news","tag-president","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\/204897","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=204897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}