{"id":206589,"date":"2025-09-09T06:17:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-parliament-adjourned-unjustly-ar\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T06:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T04:17:55","slug":"namibia-parliament-adjourned-unjustly-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-parliament-adjourned-unjustly-ar\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Parliament Adjourned Unjustly &#8211; AR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Affirmative Repositioning (AR) chief whip Vaino Hangula says the abrupt adjournment of a parliament session by National Assembly speaker Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila was unjust.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The speaker on Wednesday adjourned the session due to a stand-off after Swapo member of parliament Paula Kooper objected to Hangula&#8217;s motion to extend the sitting hours of the August house.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Kuugongelwa-Amadhila initially agreed for the house to vote on the motion but adjourned the session prematurely, Hangula says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509040562.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>Affirmative Repositioning (AR) chief whip Vaino Hangula says the abrupt adjournment of a parliament session by National Assembly speaker Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila was unjust. The speaker on Wednesday adjourned the session due to a stand-off after Swapo member of parliament Paula Kooper objected to Hangula&#8217;s motion to extend the sitting hours of the August house. Kuugongelwa-Amadhila [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206590,"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":[8838,258,256,4706,724,257,2412,254,11646],"class_list":["post-206589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-adjourned","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unjustly"],"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\/206589","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=206589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}