{"id":208342,"date":"2025-09-27T07:09:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-no-country-can-reach-its-full-potential-if-women-are-left-behind-nandi-ndaitwah\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T07:09:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:09:59","slug":"namibia-no-country-can-reach-its-full-potential-if-women-are-left-behind-nandi-ndaitwah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-no-country-can-reach-its-full-potential-if-women-are-left-behind-nandi-ndaitwah\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: No Country Can Reach Its Full Potential If Women Are Left Behind &#8211; Nandi-Ndaitwah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says no country can reach its full potential if women are not given an opportunity to lead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">She was addressing students and faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania, United States (US), on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The event was held under the theme &#8216;Democracy, Gender Equality, and Leadership in Africa: Namibia&#8217;s Vision for Inclusive and Transformational Development&#8217; at the Perry World House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Nandi-Ndaitwah cited Namibia as an example, saying women occupy top leadership&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509260220.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>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says no country can reach its full potential if women are not given an opportunity to lead. She was addressing students and faculty members at the University of Pennsylvania, United States (US), on Thursday. The event was held under the theme &#8216;Democracy, Gender Equality, and Leadership in Africa: Namibia&#8217;s Vision for Inclusive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208343,"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":[258,256,5042,10170,7781,4706,724,20099,257,9398,5160,254,6524],"class_list":["post-208342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-country","tag-full","tag-left","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nandindaitwah","tag-news","tag-potential","tag-reach","tag-south-africa-today","tag-women"],"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\/208342","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=208342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}