{"id":206899,"date":"2025-09-12T06:30:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-social-workers-reject-sankwasas-sweeping-remarks-on-unmarried-counsellors\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T06:30:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T04:30:57","slug":"namibia-social-workers-reject-sankwasas-sweeping-remarks-on-unmarried-counsellors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-social-workers-reject-sankwasas-sweeping-remarks-on-unmarried-counsellors\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Social Workers Reject Sankwasa&#8217;s Sweeping Remarks On Unmarried Counsellors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>The Namibia Social Workers Association (Naswa) has expressed dismay over comments made by minister of urban and rural development James Sankwasa, suggesting unmarried social workers should not be consulted for marital advice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Sankwasa made these remarks during the official designation of Hompa Kudumo as the new Ukwangali chief at Kahenge in the Kavango West region last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">&#8220;Today, people are running to the modern courts to discuss their marriage problems, and they come back with the same&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509110625.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 Namibia Social Workers Association (Naswa) has expressed dismay over comments made by minister of urban and rural development James Sankwasa, suggesting unmarried social workers should not be consulted for marital advice. Sankwasa made these remarks during the official designation of Hompa Kudumo as the new Ukwangali chief at Kahenge in the Kavango West region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206900,"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":[258,256,19491,4706,724,257,6654,9469,52317,3577,254,14008,52318,6498],"class_list":["post-206899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-counsellors","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-reject","tag-remarks","tag-sankwasas","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sweeping","tag-unmarried","tag-workers"],"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\/206899","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=206899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}