{"id":208766,"date":"2025-10-02T19:22:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibian-navy-turns-21-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T17:22:56","slug":"namibian-navy-turns-21-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibian-navy-turns-21-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibian Navy Turns 21 &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>The Namibian Navy&#8217;s 21st anniversary kicked off with a two-week sport festival at Walvis Bay on Monday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Namibian Navy was commissioned into a fully-fledged navy on 7 October 2004 after transitioning from a Maritime Wing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Navy commander rear admiral Sacheus !Gonteb said this year&#8217;s anniversary marks a moment to recognise the navy&#8217;s commitment to innovation and self-reliance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;We are here to honour the many achievements and sacrifices that have defined our navy over the past 21 years&#8221;, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510020553.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 Namibian Navy&#8217;s 21st anniversary kicked off with a two-week sport festival at Walvis Bay on Monday. The Namibian Navy was commissioned into a fully-fledged navy on 7 October 2004 after transitioning from a Maritime Wing. Navy commander rear admiral Sacheus !Gonteb said this year&#8217;s anniversary marks a moment to recognise the navy&#8217;s commitment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208767,"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":[258,256,42655,724,6953,7451,257,254,7907],"class_list":["post-208766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian","tag-navy","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turns"],"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\/208766","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=208766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}