{"id":215912,"date":"2025-12-06T21:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T19:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-rundu-swearing-in-of-councillors-on-hold\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T19:58:15","slug":"namibia-rundu-swearing-in-of-councillors-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-rundu-swearing-in-of-councillors-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Rundu Swearing-in of Councillors On Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>The swearing-in of Rundu local authority councillors will not happen until the self-review of the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) in the Electoral Court is concluded.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">This was confirmed by Rundu spokesperson Benjamin Makayi yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">&#8220;The Rundu Town Council swearing-in is on hold for now until the court pronounces itself. But other local authorities&#8217; swearing-in will go ahead,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">By law, elected office bearers should take the oath of office within seven days of being confirmed by the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512050678.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 swearing-in of Rundu local authority councillors will not happen until the self-review of the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) in the Electoral Court is concluded. This was confirmed by Rundu spokesperson Benjamin Makayi yesterday. &#8220;The Rundu Town Council swearing-in is on hold for now until the court pronounces itself. But other local authorities&#8217; swearing-in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215913,"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":[258,256,16082,7204,4706,724,257,2407,254,16694],"class_list":["post-215912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-councillors","tag-hold","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rundu","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swearingin"],"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\/215912","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=215912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}