{"id":205675,"date":"2025-08-28T05:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-kapofi-urges-unity-as-heroes-day-recalls-sacrifices-for-namibias-liberation\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T03:48:50","slug":"namibia-kapofi-urges-unity-as-heroes-day-recalls-sacrifices-for-namibias-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-kapofi-urges-unity-as-heroes-day-recalls-sacrifices-for-namibias-liberation\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Kapofi Urges Unity As Heroes Day Recalls Sacrifices for Namibia&#8217;s Liberation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>Any people sacrificed their lives for Namibia&#8217;s liberation, minister of defence and veterans affairs Frans Kapofi says.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">&#8220;We are one united country and we should ensure our sovereignty remains intact. It is the unity that sustained our struggle; let us do everything in our power to maintain it,&#8221; he said during the 35th Heroes Day commemoration at Katima Mulilo on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">He said peace is precious and Namibians should continue to cherish it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508270448.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>Any people sacrificed their lives for Namibia&#8217;s liberation, minister of defence and veterans affairs Frans Kapofi says. &#8220;We are one united country and we should ensure our sovereignty remains intact. It is the unity that sustained our struggle; let us do everything in our power to maintain it,&#8221; he said during the 35th Heroes Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":205676,"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":[258,256,7165,9171,39972,8332,4706,724,9052,257,13345,23495,254,4019,6810],"class_list":["post-205675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-day","tag-heroes","tag-kapofi","tag-liberation","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-recalls","tag-sacrifices","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unity","tag-urges"],"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\/205675","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=205675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}