{"id":216727,"date":"2025-12-15T10:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mva-fund-warns-motorists-to-be-vigilant-as-heavy-rains-increase-accident-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T08:16:18","slug":"namibia-mva-fund-warns-motorists-to-be-vigilant-as-heavy-rains-increase-accident-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mva-fund-warns-motorists-to-be-vigilant-as-heavy-rains-increase-accident-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: MVA Fund Warns Motorists to Be Vigilant As Heavy Rains Increase Accident Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em>The Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) Fund is urging motorists to exercise caution on the roads as heavy rains continue to fall across the country, increasing the risk of accidents and dangerous driving conditions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In a statement issued on Tuesday, MVA spokesperson John Haufiku says the rainy season is now officially in full swing, reminding road users that wet and slippery surfaces, reduced visibility and waterlogged areas pose serious hazards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The MVA Fund particularly warns drivers against&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512150119.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 Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA) Fund is urging motorists to exercise caution on the roads as heavy rains continue to fall across the country, increasing the risk of accidents and dangerous driving conditions. In a statement issued on Tuesday, MVA spokesperson John Haufiku says the rainy season is now officially in full swing, reminding road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":216728,"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":[7264,258,256,5111,8130,6721,9709,38193,4706,724,257,15767,9590,254,15539,6853],"class_list":["post-216727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-accident","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fund","tag-heavy","tag-increase","tag-motorists","tag-mva","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rains","tag-risk","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vigilant","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\/216727","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=216727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}