{"id":219688,"date":"2026-01-08T11:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-deputy-minister-ballotti-urges-namibians-to-uphold-peace-respect-sovereignty\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:09:16","slug":"namibia-deputy-minister-ballotti-urges-namibians-to-uphold-peace-respect-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-deputy-minister-ballotti-urges-namibians-to-uphold-peace-respect-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Deputy Minister Ballotti Urges Namibians to Uphold Peace, Respect Sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>Deputy minister of education, innovation, youth, sport, arts and culture Dino Ballotti has urged Namibians to continue advocating for peace, saying the country is fortunate to enjoy a peaceful environment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">He made the remark in a Facebook post on Sunday, following the arrest of Venezuelan president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, by the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Ballotti said Namibians should be peaceful regardless of how insignificant their individual voices may be, adding that collective action&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601060416.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>Deputy minister of education, innovation, youth, sport, arts and culture Dino Ballotti has urged Namibians to continue advocating for peace, saying the country is fortunate to enjoy a peaceful environment. He made the remark in a Facebook post on Sunday, following the arrest of Venezuelan president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":219689,"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":[258,256,39457,6012,5941,4706,724,7974,257,6157,7571,254,864,10367,6810],"class_list":["post-219688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ballotti","tag-deputy","tag-minister","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibians","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-respect","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sovereignty","tag-uphold","tag-urges"],"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\/219688","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=219688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}