{"id":220931,"date":"2026-01-18T23:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-venaani-wants-netumbo-nandi-ndaitwah-to-start-parliament-early\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T23:34:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:34:01","slug":"namibia-venaani-wants-netumbo-nandi-ndaitwah-to-start-parliament-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-venaani-wants-netumbo-nandi-ndaitwah-to-start-parliament-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Venaani Wants Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah to Start Parliament Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>Popular Democratic Movement president McHenry Venaani has called on president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah to recall parliamentarians to resume their National Assembly work early.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">This because of the unresolved youth unemployment crisis, he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Last November, the president complained about the parliament&#8217;s low legislative output and lack of new laws being brought to parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Venaani says the president has the constitutional powers to recall the National Assembly to start working earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;We&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601150216.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>Popular Democratic Movement president McHenry Venaani has called on president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah to recall parliamentarians to resume their National Assembly work early. This because of the unresolved youth unemployment crisis, he says. Last November, the president complained about the parliament&#8217;s low legislative output and lack of new laws being brought to parliament. Venaani says the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":220932,"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":[258,256,7473,4706,724,20099,20098,257,2412,254,7138,23955],"class_list":["post-220931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-early","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nandindaitwah","tag-netumbo","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-south-africa-today","tag-start","tag-venaani"],"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\/220931","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=220931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}