{"id":225841,"date":"2026-03-03T01:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ipc-raises-concerns-about-railway-infrastructure-after-rovos-train-derailment\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T01:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:13:24","slug":"namibia-ipc-raises-concerns-about-railway-infrastructure-after-rovos-train-derailment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ipc-raises-concerns-about-railway-infrastructure-after-rovos-train-derailment\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: IPC Raises Concerns About Railway Infrastructure After Rovos Train Derailment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>The Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) has raised alarm over the condition of Namibia&#8217;s railway infrastructure after a luxury Rovos Rail passenger train derailed near Keetmanshoop on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The derailment on the Seeheim-Holoog railway line near Keetmanshoop claimed two lives and left four people injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In a statement issued by the IPC&#8217;s shadow minister of works and transport, Nelson Kalangula, on Sunday, the party said the accident exposes &#8220;urgent and serious questions&#8221; about rail safety,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603020831.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 Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) has raised alarm over the condition of Namibia&#8217;s railway infrastructure after a luxury Rovos Rail passenger train derailed near Keetmanshoop on Sunday. The derailment on the Seeheim-Holoog railway line near Keetmanshoop claimed two lives and left four people injured. In a statement issued by the IPC&#8217;s shadow minister of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225842,"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":[258,256,5987,53805,9864,33451,4706,724,257,2918,5234,49202,254,6026],"class_list":["post-225841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-concerns","tag-derailment","tag-infrastructure","tag-ipc","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-railway","tag-raises","tag-rovos","tag-south-africa-today","tag-train"],"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\/225841","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=225841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}