{"id":221516,"date":"2026-01-22T23:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-minister-rejects-relocation-of-katima-mulilo-weighbridge\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:42:13","slug":"namibia-minister-rejects-relocation-of-katima-mulilo-weighbridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-minister-rejects-relocation-of-katima-mulilo-weighbridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Minister Rejects Relocation of Katima Mulilo Weighbridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>Plans to relocate the Katima Mulilo weighbridge to alleviate truck congestion in the main areas of the town and to enable 24-hour operations suffered a major setback earlier this week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Minister of works and transport Veikko Nekundi does not approve of the newly proposed site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The proposed site is located in the Liselo area, approximately 11 kilometres from the main town centre, and falls under the jurisdiction of the Mafwe traditional authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601220242.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>Plans to relocate the Katima Mulilo weighbridge to alleviate truck congestion in the main areas of the town and to enable 24-hour operations suffered a major setback earlier this week. Minister of works and transport Veikko Nekundi does not approve of the newly proposed site. The proposed site is located in the Liselo area, approximately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":221517,"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":[258,256,11831,5941,30685,4706,724,257,8440,23549,254,53471],"class_list":["post-221516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-katima","tag-minister","tag-mulilo","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rejects","tag-relocation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weighbridge"],"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\/221516","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=221516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}