{"id":208490,"date":"2025-09-29T07:13:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mp-blames-gambling-and-spending-for-citizen-debt-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T07:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:13:50","slug":"namibia-mp-blames-gambling-and-spending-for-citizen-debt-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mp-blames-gambling-and-spending-for-citizen-debt-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia MP Blames Gambling and Spending for Citizen Debt Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>Swapo member of parliament Pohamba Shifeta blames gambling for the debt crisis facing many Namibians.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Shifeta proposes that education on how to borrow money be provided, citing that many people are financially burdened due to their borrowing habits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Shifeta said this yesterday while addressing fellow parliamentarians on a motion seeking to determine if existing laws truly protect people from loan sharks.<\/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=\"11\">Popular Democratic Movement&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509260066.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>Swapo member of parliament Pohamba Shifeta blames gambling for the debt crisis facing many Namibians. Shifeta proposes that education on how to borrow money be provided, citing that many people are financially burdened due to their borrowing habits. Shifeta said this yesterday while addressing fellow parliamentarians on a motion seeking to determine if existing laws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208491,"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":[258,256,8259,8455,3723,6861,14085,4706,724,257,254,9063],"class_list":["post-208490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blames","tag-citizen","tag-crisis","tag-debt","tag-gambling","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spending"],"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\/208490","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=208490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}