{"id":217117,"date":"2025-12-18T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-zambezi-governor-rejects-secession-harbouring-udp-petition\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:22:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:22:53","slug":"namibia-zambezi-governor-rejects-secession-harbouring-udp-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-zambezi-governor-rejects-secession-harbouring-udp-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Zambezi Governor Rejects Secession-Harbouring UDP Petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Zambezi governor Dorothy Kabula-Simushi has turned away United Democratic Party (UDP) members who wanted to submit their petition demanding a dialogue with the government.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The UDP members, under the leadership of Mishake Muyongo, have hosted numerous demonstrations seeking a dialogue with the government to discuss seceding the Zambezi region from Namibia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The UDP&#8217;s third demonstration of the year follows a protest by residents in the region, who have urged the government to prevent the party from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512180074.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>Zambezi governor Dorothy Kabula-Simushi has turned away United Democratic Party (UDP) members who wanted to submit their petition demanding a dialogue with the government. The UDP members, under the leadership of Mishake Muyongo, have hosted numerous demonstrations seeking a dialogue with the government to discuss seceding the Zambezi region from Namibia. The UDP&#8217;s third demonstration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217118,"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":[258,256,4269,4706,724,257,5653,8440,53163,254,38905,7392],"class_list":["post-217117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-governor","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-petition","tag-rejects","tag-secessionharbouring","tag-south-africa-today","tag-udp","tag-zambezi"],"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\/217117","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=217117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}