{"id":208979,"date":"2025-10-05T07:27:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T05:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-parliament-in-uproar-after-nudo-mps-remarks-on-swapo-headquarters\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T07:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T05:27:52","slug":"namibia-parliament-in-uproar-after-nudo-mps-remarks-on-swapo-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-parliament-in-uproar-after-nudo-mps-remarks-on-swapo-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Parliament in Uproar After Nudo MP&#8217;s Remarks On Swapo Headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>Remarks that Swapo funded the construction of its headquarters with Chinese money caused chaos in parliament on Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The comments were made by National Unity Democratic Organisation parliamentarian Vetaruhe Kandorozu, who alleged that Swapo is awarding tenders to Chinese companies as a way of paying off its loans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">These allegations were, however, not received well by Swapo parliamentarians who demanded a retraction from Kandorozu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;He must withdraw what he said we cannot allow him to make&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510030067.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>Remarks that Swapo funded the construction of its headquarters with Chinese money caused chaos in parliament on Thursday. The comments were made by National Unity Democratic Organisation parliamentarian Vetaruhe Kandorozu, who alleged that Swapo is awarding tenders to Chinese companies as a way of paying off its loans. These allegations were, however, not received well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208980,"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":[258,256,7482,7260,4706,724,257,21650,2412,9469,254,1664,16699],"class_list":["post-208979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-headquarters","tag-mps","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nudo","tag-parliament","tag-remarks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swapo","tag-uproar"],"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\/208979","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=208979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}