{"id":228725,"date":"2026-03-27T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nbc-clarifies-n184m-audit-report-says-it-owes-huawei\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:06:13","slug":"namibia-nbc-clarifies-n184m-audit-report-says-it-owes-huawei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nbc-clarifies-n184m-audit-report-says-it-owes-huawei\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: NBC Clarifies N$184m Audit Report Says It Owes Huawei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) says it owes communications technology company Huawei only N$3 million, as opposed to N$184 million flagged in the auditor general&#8217;s report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">NBC outgoing director general Stanley Similo explained this during a public hearing with the parliamentary standing committee on public accounts in Windhoek on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The NBC has received adverse audit reports for the past five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us 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> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">This&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603270208.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 Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) says it owes communications technology company Huawei only N$3 million, as opposed to N$184 million flagged in the auditor general&#8217;s report. NBC outgoing director general Stanley Similo explained this during a public hearing with the parliamentary standing committee on public accounts in Windhoek on Thursday. The NBC has received adverse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":228726,"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":[258,256,7513,12020,16482,54017,4706,724,28113,257,14099,5144,254],"class_list":["post-228725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-audit","tag-clarifies","tag-huawei","tag-n184m","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nbc","tag-news","tag-owes","tag-report","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\/228725","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=228725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}