{"id":218553,"date":"2025-12-30T22:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-erongo-records-calm-weekend-with-no-serious-crime\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T22:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:49:05","slug":"namibia-erongo-records-calm-weekend-with-no-serious-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-erongo-records-calm-weekend-with-no-serious-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Erongo Records Calm Weekend, With No Serious Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>The Erongo region recorded no serious crime incidents over the long weekend, the police say.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Senior inspector Hilma Shomongula say patrols contributed to a peaceful period, with residents largely observing public order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;No serious crimes were reported in all of Erongo region. There was much police visibility. We even did a patrol at the beach and people were just drinking in peace, not fights,&#8221; Shomongula says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Reported incidents involved robberies, phone grabbing, and common assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512300061.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 Erongo region recorded no serious crime incidents over the long weekend, the police say. Senior inspector Hilma Shomongula say patrols contributed to a peaceful period, with residents largely observing public order. &#8220;No serious crimes were reported in all of Erongo region. There was much police visibility. We even did a patrol at the beach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218554,"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":[258,256,9553,5357,8941,4706,724,257,6850,254,7608],"class_list":["post-218553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calm","tag-crime","tag-erongo","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-records","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weekend"],"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\/218553","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=218553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}