{"id":229235,"date":"2026-04-01T14:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-two-die-in-crash-between-arandis-and-usakos\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:19:23","slug":"namibia-two-die-in-crash-between-arandis-and-usakos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-two-die-in-crash-between-arandis-and-usakos\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Two Die in Crash Between Arandis and Usakos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>Two people died after the vehicle they were travelling in allegedly lost control between Arandis and Usakos on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The vehicle&#8217;s left rear tyre reportedly burst, causing the driver to lose control and the vehicle to overturn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">This was confirmed by Erongo regional police crime investigation coordinator deputy commissioner Erastus Iikuyu on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The victims have been identified as Hamalwa Nghifundja-Kalifolwa (40) and Albertina Petrus (37).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">&#8220;The vehicle was travelling to Swakopmund and the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604010134.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>Two people died after the vehicle they were travelling in allegedly lost control between Arandis and Usakos on Sunday. The vehicle&#8217;s left rear tyre reportedly burst, causing the driver to lose control and the vehicle to overturn. This was confirmed by Erongo regional police crime investigation coordinator deputy commissioner Erastus Iikuyu on Tuesday. The victims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229236,"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":[258,256,18035,7750,9028,4706,724,257,254,22841],"class_list":["post-229235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arandis","tag-crash","tag-die","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-usakos"],"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\/229235","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=229235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}