{"id":219292,"date":"2026-01-05T11:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-oshana-village-resident-in-hospital-after-violent-new-year-brawl-at-ongwediva\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:03:52","slug":"namibia-oshana-village-resident-in-hospital-after-violent-new-year-brawl-at-ongwediva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-oshana-village-resident-in-hospital-after-violent-new-year-brawl-at-ongwediva\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Oshana Village Resident in Hospital After Violent New Year Brawl At Ongwediva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>A resident of a village in the Oshana region was hospitalised with serious head injuries on New Year&#8217;s Day following a violent altercation involving a panga, bottles and stones at a bar at Ongwediva.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Petrus Antonio (40) was testing out fireworks at a bar in the Mandume location when four suspects approached him and tried to stop him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Oshana police deputy commissioner Fredrick Ndjadila said the initial incident took place on Wednesday night when Antonio refused to stop his fireworks, prompting the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601050052.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>A resident of a village in the Oshana region was hospitalised with serious head injuries on New Year&#8217;s Day following a violent altercation involving a panga, bottles and stones at a bar at Ongwediva. Petrus Antonio (40) was testing out fireworks at a bar in the Mandume location when four suspects approached him and tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":219293,"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":[258,256,18388,6362,4706,724,257,18386,10604,8432,254,10217,4979,6537],"class_list":["post-219292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brawl","tag-hospital","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-ongwediva","tag-oshana","tag-resident","tag-south-africa-today","tag-village","tag-violent","tag-year"],"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\/219292","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=219292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}