{"id":224085,"date":"2026-02-18T00:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mineworkers-union-calls-for-urgent-reforms-in-mining-sector\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:41:19","slug":"namibia-mineworkers-union-calls-for-urgent-reforms-in-mining-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mineworkers-union-calls-for-urgent-reforms-in-mining-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Mineworkers Union Calls for Urgent Reforms in Mining Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>The Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) has called for urgent reforms to transform labour practices and achieve decent work in the country&#8217;s mining sector.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">MUN general secretary George Ampweya said this during the national public dialogue on the promotion of decent work within the Namibia mining sector, held at Droombos on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The dialogue was hosted by the parliamentary standing committee on poverty eradication, labour and industrial relations and supported by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">Ampweya&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602170318.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 Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) has called for urgent reforms to transform labour practices and achieve decent work in the country&#8217;s mining sector. MUN general secretary George Ampweya said this during the national public dialogue on the promotion of decent work within the Namibia mining sector, held at Droombos on Monday. The dialogue was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224086,"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":[258,256,6137,49326,6477,4706,724,257,7580,5991,254,6156,11318],"class_list":["post-224085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-mineworkers","tag-mining","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-reforms","tag-sector","tag-south-africa-today","tag-union","tag-urgent"],"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\/224085","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=224085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}