{"id":218782,"date":"2026-01-01T22:53:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-tsumeb-urges-residents-to-unblock-storm-water-drainage\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T22:53:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:53:49","slug":"namibia-tsumeb-urges-residents-to-unblock-storm-water-drainage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-tsumeb-urges-residents-to-unblock-storm-water-drainage\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Tsumeb Urges Residents to Unblock Storm Water Drainage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>The Tsumeb Municipality has warned residents about the illegal blocking of storm water drainage points.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;The blocking, sealing or re-blocking of storm water drainage holes, weep holes or natural water flow points in boundary walls is strictly prohibited,&#8221; Tsumeb Municipality chief executive Frans Enkali said in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">There have been several incidents of flooding at the town due to blocked drainage points during this rainy season, Enkali said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Although the risk of flash flooding&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512310416.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 Tsumeb Municipality has warned residents about the illegal blocking of storm water drainage points. &#8220;The blocking, sealing or re-blocking of storm water drainage holes, weep holes or natural water flow points in boundary walls is strictly prohibited,&#8221; Tsumeb Municipality chief executive Frans Enkali said in a statement on Tuesday. There have been several incidents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218783,"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":[258,256,18825,4706,724,257,4288,254,11234,26762,53296,6810,6722],"class_list":["post-218782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drainage","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-residents","tag-south-africa-today","tag-storm","tag-tsumeb","tag-unblock","tag-urges","tag-water"],"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\/218782","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=218782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}