{"id":217661,"date":"2025-12-22T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mukwe-pensioner-frederick-mangimba-keeps-tradition-alive-through-wood-carving-in-kavango-east\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:30:51","slug":"namibia-mukwe-pensioner-frederick-mangimba-keeps-tradition-alive-through-wood-carving-in-kavango-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mukwe-pensioner-frederick-mangimba-keeps-tradition-alive-through-wood-carving-in-kavango-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Mukwe Pensioner Frederick Mangimba Keeps Tradition Alive Through Wood Carving in Kavango East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Frederick Mangimba, an elderly resident of Mukwe constituency in the Kavango East region, supplements his old age pension grant through traditional wood carving from a workshop beneath a tree at his homestead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">From Shadikongoro Teya village, he carves wooden posts and stirring sticks, which he sells to local buyers and travellers passing through the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Mangimba says only the rain can move him from his work station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">He adds that he learnt the skill from his father while living in exile in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512220131.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>Frederick Mangimba, an elderly resident of Mukwe constituency in the Kavango East region, supplements his old age pension grant through traditional wood carving from a workshop beneath a tree at his homestead. From Shadikongoro Teya village, he carves wooden posts and stirring sticks, which he sells to local buyers and travellers passing through the area. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217662,"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":[258,256,10269,21783,6719,38436,9725,53191,44765,4706,724,257,15351,254,28197,9339],"class_list":["post-217661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alive","tag-carving","tag-east","tag-frederick","tag-kavango","tag-mangimba","tag-mukwe","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pensioner","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tradition","tag-wood"],"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\/217661","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=217661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}