{"id":209423,"date":"2025-10-10T07:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-walvis-bay-residents-group-rejects-apartheid-claims\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T07:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:37:52","slug":"namibia-walvis-bay-residents-group-rejects-apartheid-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-walvis-bay-residents-group-rejects-apartheid-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Walvis Bay Residents Group Rejects Apartheid Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>A Walvis Bay residents association has denied allegations of &#8216;apartheid thinking&#8217;, saying it is open to all races.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The Joint Walvis Bay Residents Association (JWBRA) says it is there for all people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">This follows deputy minister of education, innovation, youth, sport, arts and culture Dino Ballotti criticising the association on Facebook over its all-white line-up for the upcoming regional council and local authority elections, referring to this as &#8220;apartheid thinking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510100051.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>A Walvis Bay residents association has denied allegations of &#8216;apartheid thinking&#8217;, saying it is open to all races. The Joint Walvis Bay Residents Association (JWBRA) says it is there for all people. This follows deputy minister of education, innovation, youth, sport, arts and culture Dino Ballotti criticising the association on Facebook over its all-white line-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209424,"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":[258,256,3572,8611,8117,5192,4706,724,257,8440,4288,254,10438],"class_list":["post-209423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-apartheid","tag-bay","tag-claims","tag-group","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rejects","tag-residents","tag-south-africa-today","tag-walvis"],"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\/209423","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=209423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}