{"id":215116,"date":"2025-11-28T09:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swapo-leads-regional-council-and-local-authority-elections\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T09:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T07:34:16","slug":"namibia-swapo-leads-regional-council-and-local-authority-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swapo-leads-regional-council-and-local-authority-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Swapo Leads Regional Council and Local Authority Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>The regional council and local authority elections preliminary results, which continue to be announced at collation centres on Thursday evening, indicate that the Swapo Party is leading.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Swapo Khomas regional coordinator Elliot Mbako has expressed confidence in the party reclaiming the region, particularly the Windhoek Rural constituency which was under the Landless People&#8217;s Movement (LPM).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">&#8220;We have certainly won back most parts of the region and that illustrates our commitment and hard work we&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511280059.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 regional council and local authority elections preliminary results, which continue to be announced at collation centres on Thursday evening, indicate that the Swapo Party is leading. Swapo Khomas regional coordinator Elliot Mbako has expressed confidence in the party reclaiming the region, particularly the Windhoek Rural constituency which was under the Landless People&#8217;s Movement (LPM). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215117,"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":[258,256,9367,6158,821,9429,7823,4706,724,257,4268,254,1664],"class_list":["post-215116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authority","tag-council","tag-elections","tag-leads","tag-local","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-regional","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\/215116","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=215116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}