{"id":229292,"date":"2026-04-02T02:20:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/africa-namibian-tiktoker-shines-at-africa-influencer-awards\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T02:20:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T00:20:02","slug":"africa-namibian-tiktoker-shines-at-africa-influencer-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/africa-namibian-tiktoker-shines-at-africa-influencer-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Namibian Tiktoker Shines At Africa Influencer Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Namibian TikToker Jamie-Lee Loss (23) won TikTok star of the year award in Pretoria, South Africa, at the Emerge Star Africa Awards on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The awards celebrate trailblazers, change makers and influential individuals, brand and organisations across various sectors in Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Loss, who was born and raised in Windhoek, has transformed a &#8220;boredom-induced&#8221; TikTok account started in 2020 into a powerhouse brand that is redefining what it means to be an influencer in Namibia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604010451.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>Namibian TikToker Jamie-Lee Loss (23) won TikTok star of the year award in Pretoria, South Africa, at the Emerge Star Africa Awards on Sunday. The awards celebrate trailblazers, change makers and influential individuals, brand and organisations across various sectors in Africa. Loss, who was born and raised in Windhoek, has transformed a &#8220;boredom-induced&#8221; TikTok account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229293,"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":[258,256,6526,38904,724,6953,257,9249,254,47015],"class_list":["post-229292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-awards","tag-influencer","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian","tag-news","tag-shines","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tiktoker"],"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\/229292","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=229292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}