{"id":212286,"date":"2025-11-02T20:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ecn-u-turn-on-nkurenkuru-exposes-deep-institutional-weakness\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T20:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:28:10","slug":"namibia-ecn-u-turn-on-nkurenkuru-exposes-deep-institutional-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ecn-u-turn-on-nkurenkuru-exposes-deep-institutional-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: ECN U-Turn On Nkurenkuru Exposes &#8216;Deep Institutional Weakness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>The recent U-turn by the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) to self-review its error and have a regional council election proceed in the Nkurenkuru constituency in the Kavango West region has sparked credibility and competency concerns.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">This is according to Affirmative Repositioning (AR) spokesperson George Kambala, following a ruling on Friday in the Electoral Court, which ordered that the Nkurenkuru constituency regional council election must go ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">This is after deputy judge president&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510280097.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 recent U-turn by the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) to self-review its error and have a regional council election proceed in the Nkurenkuru constituency in the Kavango West region has sparked credibility and competency concerns. This is according to Affirmative Repositioning (AR) spokesperson George Kambala, following a ruling on Friday in the Electoral Court, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":212287,"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":[258,256,6390,30981,10481,26308,4706,724,257,18877,254,18540,17860],"class_list":["post-212286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deep","tag-ecn","tag-exposes","tag-institutional","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nkurenkuru","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uturn","tag-weakness"],"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\/212286","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=212286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}