{"id":229204,"date":"2026-04-01T02:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-n800000-surrogacy-scam-experts-warn-of-legal-gaps-and-exploitation-in-namibia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T02:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:17:10","slug":"namibia-n800000-surrogacy-scam-experts-warn-of-legal-gaps-and-exploitation-in-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-n800000-surrogacy-scam-experts-warn-of-legal-gaps-and-exploitation-in-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: N$800,000 Surrogacy Scam &#8211; Experts Warn of Legal Gaps and Exploitation in Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Namibia has warned that a lack of surrogacy regulations in the country risks the exploitation of women, following a fraudulent advertisement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The society&#8217;s secretary general, David Emvula, who is also a specialist obstetrician-gynaecologist, has said this in response to a notice circulating online claiming that Maerua Medical Centre is looking for surrogates, offering them N$800 000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;Considering the amount of poverty, people may get into these&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603310074.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 Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Namibia has warned that a lack of surrogacy regulations in the country risks the exploitation of women, following a fraudulent advertisement. The society&#8217;s secretary general, David Emvula, who is also a specialist obstetrician-gynaecologist, has said this in response to a notice circulating online claiming that Maerua Medical Centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229205,"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":[258,256,5060,13308,10441,6393,11701,4706,724,257,13731,254,54059,12313],"class_list":["post-229204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-experts","tag-exploitation","tag-gaps","tag-legal","tag-n800000","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-scam","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surrogacy","tag-warn"],"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\/229204","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=229204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}