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Deputy minister of education, innovation, youth, sport, arts and culture Dino Ballotti has criticised a Walvis Bay residents association for its lack of racial diversity, describing this as “apartheid thinking”.<\/em><\/p>\n In a Facebook post yesterday, Ballotti says electing white candidates only does not reflect Namibia’s reality nor contribute to nation building.<\/p>\n “I say this as a white Namibian: This is apartheid thinking and I condemn it in its entirety,” his post reads.<\/p>\n \n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Deputy minister of education, innovation, youth, sport, arts and culture Dino Ballotti has criticised a Walvis Bay residents association for its lack of racial diversity, describing this as “apartheid thinking”. In a Facebook post yesterday, Ballotti says electing white candidates only does not reflect Namibia’s reality nor contribute to nation building. “I say this as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209622,"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":[258,256,50307,5735,8611,9085,33001,4706,724,257,4288,254,10438],"class_list":["post-209621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allwhite","tag-association","tag-bay","tag-candidates","tag-criticised","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","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\/209621","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=209621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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