{"id":228317,"date":"2026-03-24T01:58:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-30-omusati-youth-businesses-approved-for-funding-shafudah\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:58:35","slug":"namibia-30-omusati-youth-businesses-approved-for-funding-shafudah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-30-omusati-youth-businesses-approved-for-funding-shafudah\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: 30 Omusati Youth Businesses Approved for Funding &#8211; Shafudah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>Thirty youth-owned businesses in the Omusati region have so far been approved for funding under the National Youth Development Fund.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">This was announced by finance minister Erica Shafudah during the 36th Independence celebrations on Saturday at Okahao.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Shafudah said her ministry has allocated N$257 million to the fund to support young entrepreneurs across the country, paving the way for their future success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">She also outlined ongoing initiatives to strengthen food security and agriculture in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603230716.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>Thirty youth-owned businesses in the Omusati region have so far been approved for funding under the National Youth Development Fund. This was announced by finance minister Erica Shafudah during the 36th Independence celebrations on Saturday at Okahao. Shafudah said her ministry has allocated N$257 million to the fund to support young entrepreneurs across the country, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":228318,"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":[258,256,16152,6817,6141,4706,724,257,20114,53987,254,6276],"class_list":["post-228317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approved","tag-businesses","tag-funding","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-omusati","tag-shafudah","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youth"],"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\/228317","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=228317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}