{"id":215507,"date":"2025-12-02T21:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-young-councillor-23-promises-to-empower-mariental-youth\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:48:13","slug":"namibia-young-councillor-23-promises-to-empower-mariental-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-young-councillor-23-promises-to-empower-mariental-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Young Councillor (23) Promises to Empower Mariental Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>Newly elected Landless People&#8217;s Movement (LPM) councillor William Minnie says he plans to prioritise youth employment, improved service delivery and institutional reform during his term as a local authority councillor at Mariental.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Minnie (23), one of the youngest councillors elected in the 2025 polls, says his approach is grounded in &#8220;practical social democratic principles&#8221; aimed at expanding opportunities for young people and reducing inequality in the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">He told The Namibian yesterday that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512020697.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>Newly elected Landless People&#8217;s Movement (LPM) councillor William Minnie says he plans to prioritise youth employment, improved service delivery and institutional reform during his term as a local authority councillor at Mariental. Minnie (23), one of the youngest councillors elected in the 2025 polls, says his approach is grounded in &#8220;practical social democratic principles&#8221; aimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215508,"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":[258,256,17818,7924,23797,4706,724,257,9343,254,7720,6276],"class_list":["post-215507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-councillor","tag-empower","tag-mariental","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-promises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-young","tag-youth"],"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\/215507","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=215507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}