{"id":206160,"date":"2025-09-03T06:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-family-of-pupil-who-died-at-oshakati-hostel-demands-answers\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T06:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:02:53","slug":"namibia-family-of-pupil-who-died-at-oshakati-hostel-demands-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-family-of-pupil-who-died-at-oshakati-hostel-demands-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Family of Pupil Who Died At Oshakati Hostel Demands Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>The family members of a boy (17) who died at the Oshakati Secondary School hostel a month ago say they will not rest until the full circumstances surrounding his death are disclosed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">In a statement shared with The Namibian, the family says Zennena Kaluwapa died at the hostel on 28 July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">According to a report compiled by the family, the school says Kaluwapa asked a fellow pupil for the keys to his locker on the day he died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The two allegedly engaged in what was described as &#8220;playful sparring&#8221;,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509020414.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>The family members of a boy (17) who died at the Oshakati Secondary School hostel a month ago say they will not rest until the full circumstances surrounding his death are disclosed. In a statement shared with The Namibian, the family says Zennena Kaluwapa died at the hostel on 28 July. According to a report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206161,"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":[258,256,16007,6979,5649,5203,27191,4706,724,257,18835,12538,254],"class_list":["post-206160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-answers","tag-demands","tag-died","tag-family","tag-hostel","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-oshakati","tag-pupil","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\/206160","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=206160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}