{"id":207025,"date":"2025-09-13T18:35:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-national-assembly-says-amupanda-and-co-violated-standing-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T18:35:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:35:52","slug":"namibia-national-assembly-says-amupanda-and-co-violated-standing-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-national-assembly-says-amupanda-and-co-violated-standing-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: National Assembly Says Amupanda and Co Violated Standing Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">THE National Assembly says Affirmative Repositioning (AR) members of parliament<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">breached house rules, prompting speaker Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila to order their removal from the chamber.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Kuugongelwa-Amadhila later also adjourned the house as Thursday afternoon&#8217;s chaos persisted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;The speaker must maintain and preserve order,&#8221; reads a statement from the National Assembly released on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines 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><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">AR members of parliament Job&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509120622.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 National Assembly says Affirmative Repositioning (AR) members of parliament breached house rules, prompting speaker Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila to order their removal from the chamber. Kuugongelwa-Amadhila later also adjourned the house as Thursday afternoon&#8217;s chaos persisted. &#8220;The speaker must maintain and preserve order,&#8221; reads a statement from the National Assembly released on Thursday evening. Keep up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207026,"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":[258,256,23781,7269,4706,724,6687,257,10967,254,13689,19021],"class_list":["post-207025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amupanda","tag-assembly","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-rules","tag-south-africa-today","tag-standing","tag-violated"],"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\/207025","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=207025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}