{"id":228387,"date":"2026-03-24T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-our-identity-as-namibians-must-always-stand-above-our-differences-ngurare\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:00:05","slug":"namibia-our-identity-as-namibians-must-always-stand-above-our-differences-ngurare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-our-identity-as-namibians-must-always-stand-above-our-differences-ngurare\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Our Identity As Namibians Must Always Stand Above Our Differences &#8211; Ngurare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Prime minister Elijah Ngurare has called for national unity during the country&#8217;s 36th independence celebration at Oshakati in the Oshana region on Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">In his keynote address, Ngurare said unity is the foundation of the county&#8217;s progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">He urged Namibians to rise above political divisions and embrace a shared national identity, saying Independence Day belongs to all citizens regardless of their beliefs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines 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><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;While we may hold&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603240146.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>Prime minister Elijah Ngurare has called for national unity during the country&#8217;s 36th independence celebration at Oshakati in the Oshana region on Saturday. In his keynote address, Ngurare said unity is the foundation of the county&#8217;s progress. He urged Namibians to rise above political divisions and embrace a shared national identity, saying Independence Day belongs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":228388,"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":[258,256,9504,10028,4706,724,7974,257,51033,254,12397],"class_list":["post-228387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-differences","tag-identity","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibians","tag-news","tag-ngurare","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stand"],"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\/228387","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=228387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}