{"id":219415,"date":"2026-01-06T11:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-former-swapo-and-rdp-member-erasmus-hendjala-dies-aged-78\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:06:01","slug":"namibia-former-swapo-and-rdp-member-erasmus-hendjala-dies-aged-78","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-former-swapo-and-rdp-member-erasmus-hendjala-dies-aged-78\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Former Swapo and RDP Member Erasmus Hendjala Dies Aged 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Former Swapo and Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) member Erasmus Hendjala died aged 78 at an Ongwediva hospital on Friday, a family member has confirmed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Hendjala was from Oyinyikanyika, Olupandu village, in the Etayi constituency of the Omusati region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;The memorial service and funeral arrangements are still ongoing at this stage. Hence, we are unable to confirm now,&#8221; a family member has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Hendjala served as a Swapo councillor for Hakahana constituency (now Moses \/\/Garoeb constituency)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601050516.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>Former Swapo and Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) member Erasmus Hendjala died aged 78 at an Ongwediva hospital on Friday, a family member has confirmed. Hendjala was from Oyinyikanyika, Olupandu village, in the Etayi constituency of the Omusati region. &#8220;The memorial service and funeral arrangements are still ongoing at this stage. Hence, we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":219416,"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":[258,256,23230,6868,44353,53332,6483,4706,724,257,53331,254,1664],"class_list":["post-219415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aged","tag-dies","tag-erasmus","tag-hendjala","tag-member","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rdp","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swapo"],"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\/219415","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=219415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}