{"id":210986,"date":"2025-10-23T20:05:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-soes-must-shape-up-or-ship-out-swapo-mp-amutenya\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T20:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T18:05:31","slug":"namibia-soes-must-shape-up-or-ship-out-swapo-mp-amutenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-soes-must-shape-up-or-ship-out-swapo-mp-amutenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: SOEs Must Shape Up or Ship Out &#8211; Swapo MP Amutenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>Swapo parliamentarian Willem Amutenya says state-owned enterprises (SOEs) must deliver on their mandate or stand aside.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Amutenya said this on Wednesday during a debate on the appropriation bill tabled by finance minister Ericah Shafudah on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Shafudah stated that the government recorded low execution rates of capital projections totalling N$826.4 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">&#8220;It is high time we stop carrying underperforming SOEs that keep betraying the hopes of the people and unemployed youth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">&#8220;We must draw a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510230640.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 parliamentarian Willem Amutenya says state-owned enterprises (SOEs) must deliver on their mandate or stand aside. Amutenya said this on Wednesday during a debate on the appropriation bill tabled by finance minister Ericah Shafudah on Tuesday. Shafudah stated that the government recorded low execution rates of capital projections totalling N$826.4 million. &#8220;It is high time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210987,"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":[258,256,51166,4706,724,257,14777,11114,29877,254,1664],"class_list":["post-210986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amutenya","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-shape","tag-ship","tag-soes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swapo"],"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\/210986","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=210986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}