{"id":223337,"date":"2026-02-10T00:24:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-why-red-meat-belongs-at-the-centre-of-the-investment-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:24:33","slug":"namibia-why-red-meat-belongs-at-the-centre-of-the-investment-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-why-red-meat-belongs-at-the-centre-of-the-investment-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Why Red Meat Belongs At the Centre of the Investment Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>The Public Debate surrounding Namibia&#8217;s proposed investment promotion and facilitation bill has understandably focused on foreign investors, access, regulation and investor confidence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">However, this framing risks overlooking a more fundamental issue: which domestic sectors should anchor Namibia&#8217;s investment strategy under the new law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">If the bill is to achieve its stated objectives, the red meat industry must be one of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">The bill is unambiguous about its purpose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602090758.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>The Public Debate surrounding Namibia&#8217;s proposed investment promotion and facilitation bill has understandably focused on foreign investors, access, regulation and investor confidence. However, this framing risks overlooking a more fundamental issue: which domestic sectors should anchor Namibia&#8217;s investment strategy under the new law. If the bill is to achieve its stated objectives, the red meat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223338,"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":[258,256,18436,7292,9881,6018,13074,4706,724,257,10722,254],"class_list":["post-223337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-belongs","tag-bill","tag-centre","tag-investment","tag-meat","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-red","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\/223337","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=223337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}