{"id":212420,"date":"2025-11-03T20:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-tsumeb-blackouts-drag-on-as-cenored-denies-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:30:17","slug":"namibia-tsumeb-blackouts-drag-on-as-cenored-denies-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-tsumeb-blackouts-drag-on-as-cenored-denies-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Tsumeb Blackouts Drag On As Cenored Denies Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>Months after residents and businesses at Tsumeb first raised concerns about persistent electricity interruptions, the situation remains unchanged.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Business owners say the outages have not only slowed down operations but have also resulted in significant financial losses and damaged equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Goal Maize Factory manager Walter Carelse says the electricity situation has not improved since last year and continues to affect both his milling factory and diner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511030793.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>Months after residents and businesses at Tsumeb first raised concerns about persistent electricity interruptions, the situation remains unchanged. Business owners say the outages have not only slowed down operations but have also resulted in significant financial losses and damaged equipment. Goal Maize Factory manager Walter Carelse says the electricity situation has not improved since last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":212421,"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":[258,256,24754,42674,3723,7651,26548,4706,724,257,254,26762],"class_list":["post-212420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blackouts","tag-cenored","tag-crisis","tag-denies","tag-drag","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tsumeb"],"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\/212420","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=212420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}