{"id":216151,"date":"2025-12-09T10:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-namra-commissioner-warns-against-bribes\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:02:58","slug":"namibia-namra-commissioner-warns-against-bribes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-namra-commissioner-warns-against-bribes\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Namra Commissioner Warns Against Bribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>Namibia Revenue Agency (Namra) commissioner Sam Shivute warns that customers who offer bribes to agency employees will be arrested.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Speaking during a meeting with small business importers in Windhoek on Monday, Shivute said Namra enforces a zero-tolerance policy against corruption with strict disciplinary action for staff. However, customers will not be spared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;Namra has a zero-tolerance policy against corruption. Employees will be punished but customers will be arrested,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">He added that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512090099.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>Namibia Revenue Agency (Namra) commissioner Sam Shivute warns that customers who offer bribes to agency employees will be arrested. Speaking during a meeting with small business importers in Windhoek on Monday, Shivute said Namra enforces a zero-tolerance policy against corruption with strict disciplinary action for staff. However, customers will not be spared. &#8220;Namra has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216152,"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":[258,256,7015,6350,4706,724,38326,257,254,6853],"class_list":["post-216151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bribes","tag-commissioner","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namra","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns"],"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\/216151","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=216151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}