{"id":213272,"date":"2025-11-11T20:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-national-council-members-reflect-on-five-year-tenure\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T20:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:54:17","slug":"namibia-national-council-members-reflect-on-five-year-tenure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-national-council-members-reflect-on-five-year-tenure\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: National Council Members Reflect On Five-Year Tenure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>National Council members on Monday reflected on their five-year terms in parliament and said they tried to ensure they passed laws that speak to the needs of the nation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Swapo parliamentarian Bethuel Tjaveondja described his time in the council as eye-opening. Recalling that he met friends in the council, Tjaveondja urged incoming members to uphold the standards of the council at all times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;I represent the Otjozondjupa region, and thank you for putting trust in us to represent the region and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511110622.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>National Council members on Monday reflected on their five-year terms in parliament and said they tried to ensure they passed laws that speak to the needs of the nation. Swapo parliamentarian Bethuel Tjaveondja described his time in the council as eye-opening. Recalling that he met friends in the council, Tjaveondja urged incoming members to uphold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":213273,"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":[258,256,6158,17384,4326,4706,724,6687,257,10652,254,10772],"class_list":["post-213272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-council","tag-fiveyear","tag-members","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-reflect","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tenure"],"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\/213272","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=213272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}