{"id":207082,"date":"2025-09-14T06:36:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T04:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-okahandja-murders-family-takes-legal-action-against-school\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T06:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T04:36:54","slug":"namibia-okahandja-murders-family-takes-legal-action-against-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-okahandja-murders-family-takes-legal-action-against-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Okahandja Murders &#8211; Family Takes Legal Action Against School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>The grandmother of Ingrid Maasdorp (5) is threatening legal action against the murdered girl&#8217;s school for failing to tell parents the school was closed on the day of the incident.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Dollie Maasdorp last saw her granddaughter, a Grade 0 pupil, when she was dropped off at KW Von Marees Primary School on the morning of 20 March, a day before the national Independence Day celebration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Her family only found out later that there was no school that day. By the time they found out, Ingrid had already been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509120621.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 grandmother of Ingrid Maasdorp (5) is threatening legal action against the murdered girl&#8217;s school for failing to tell parents the school was closed on the day of the incident. Dollie Maasdorp last saw her granddaughter, a Grade 0 pupil, when she was dropped off at KW Von Marees Primary School on the morning of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207083,"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":[6394,258,256,5203,6393,16351,4706,724,257,30081,4362,254,5056],"class_list":["post-207082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-family","tag-legal","tag-murders","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-okahandja","tag-school","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takes"],"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\/207082","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=207082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}