{"id":216425,"date":"2025-12-12T10:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-n20-million-travel-refund-windhoek-ex-councillors-defy-minister-sankwasa\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:10:09","slug":"namibia-n20-million-travel-refund-windhoek-ex-councillors-defy-minister-sankwasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-n20-million-travel-refund-windhoek-ex-councillors-defy-minister-sankwasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: N$20 Million Travel Refund &#8211; Windhoek Ex-Councillors Defy Minister Sankwasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Minister of urban and rural development James Sankwasa has ordered former Windhoek city councillors to repay about N$20 million spent on &#8216;unapproved&#8217; international trips.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The involved councillors, however, say they will not pay back the money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The beneficiaries of these trips include councillors from Swapo, the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), the National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo), and the Affirmative Repositioning (AR).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512120028.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>Minister of urban and rural development James Sankwasa has ordered former Windhoek city councillors to repay about N$20 million spent on &#8216;unapproved&#8217; international trips. The involved councillors, however, say they will not pay back the money. The beneficiaries of these trips include councillors from Swapo, the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), the National Unity Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216426,"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":[258,256,9135,53111,5118,5941,26761,4706,724,257,17215,52192,254,5123,1582],"class_list":["post-216425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defy","tag-excouncillors","tag-million","tag-minister","tag-n20","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-refund","tag-sankwasa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-travel","tag-windhoek"],"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\/216425","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=216425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}