{"id":220173,"date":"2026-01-12T11:18:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-slain-onelago-headman-sam-nepando-laid-to-rest\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:18:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:18:26","slug":"namibia-slain-onelago-headman-sam-nepando-laid-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-slain-onelago-headman-sam-nepando-laid-to-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Slain Onelago Headman Sam Nepando Laid to Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>Onelago headman Sam Nepando was laid to rest on Saturday at Onamutene village in the Oshikoto region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Nepando was shot and killed last week while presiding over a land dispute hearing at Iikokola village in the Onayena constituency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Speaking at the funeral, Omukwanilwa Fillemon Shuumbwa of the Ondonga Traditional Authority described Nepando as a brave and committed leader who served his community with dedication until his last day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">&#8220;He was a rare and fearless leader who worked hard to strengthen&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601120046.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>Onelago headman Sam Nepando was laid to rest on Saturday at Onamutene village in the Oshikoto region. Nepando was shot and killed last week while presiding over a land dispute hearing at Iikokola village in the Onayena constituency. Speaking at the funeral, Omukwanilwa Fillemon Shuumbwa of the Ondonga Traditional Authority described Nepando as a brave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":220174,"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":[258,256,13035,8416,4706,724,53393,257,53392,8417,15667,9256,254],"class_list":["post-220173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-headman","tag-laid","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nepando","tag-news","tag-onelago","tag-rest","tag-sam","tag-slain","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/220173","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=220173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}