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Senior politicians have raised concerns over a presidential directive requiring government officials to surrender their phones before Cabinet meetings, saying it threatens their privacy and shows a lack of trust.<\/em><\/p>\n President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah reportedly enforced the rule after constantly expressing concern over the use of cellphones during Cabinet meetings.<\/p>\n However, some government officials feel this regulation infringes on their privacy.<\/p>\n Some say the rule aims to police them. Senior…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Senior politicians have raised concerns over a presidential directive requiring government officials to surrender their phones before Cabinet meetings, saying it threatens their privacy and shows a lack of trust. President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah reportedly enforced the rule after constantly expressing concern over the use of cellphones during Cabinet meetings. However, some government officials feel this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205426,"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":[258,256,7339,6467,4706,724,257,17116,2450,254],"class_list":["post-205425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bans","tag-cabinet","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-phones","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\/205425","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=205425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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