{"id":219346,"date":"2026-01-05T23:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ondonga-traditional-authority-chairperson-condemns-shooting-of-oshikoto-headmen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:05:18","slug":"namibia-ondonga-traditional-authority-chairperson-condemns-shooting-of-oshikoto-headmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ondonga-traditional-authority-chairperson-condemns-shooting-of-oshikoto-headmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Ondonga Traditional Authority Chairperson Condemns Shooting of Oshikoto Headmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>The chairperson of the Ondonga Traditional Authority, John Walenga, has condemned the shooting incident which led to the death of Onelago village headman Sam Nepando and left the headman of Likokola, I-Ben Nashandi, injured on Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">According to Oshikoto police commander commissioner Ndeshipanda Lifo, the incident occurred during a meeting about a land dispute related to the erection of a fence that was held at Likokola village in the Onayena constituency of the Oshikoto region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">In a media&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601050461.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 chairperson of the Ondonga Traditional Authority, John Walenga, has condemned the shooting incident which led to the death of Onelago village headman Sam Nepando and left the headman of Likokola, I-Ben Nashandi, injured on Friday. According to Oshikoto police commander commissioner Ndeshipanda Lifo, the incident occurred during a meeting about a land dispute related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":219347,"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":[258,256,9367,6476,7610,15427,4706,724,257,20586,918,6855,254,9464],"class_list":["post-219346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authority","tag-chairperson","tag-condemns","tag-headmen","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-ondonga","tag-oshikoto","tag-shooting","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traditional"],"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\/219346","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=219346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}