{"id":229326,"date":"2026-04-02T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/namibia-eastern-zambezi-still-uses-botswana-pula-as-ndps-lukato-blames-past-leadership-for-bridge-delays\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T14:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:12:57","slug":"namibia-eastern-zambezi-still-uses-botswana-pula-as-ndps-lukato-blames-past-leadership-for-bridge-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/namibia-eastern-zambezi-still-uses-botswana-pula-as-ndps-lukato-blames-past-leadership-for-bridge-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Eastern Zambezi Still Uses Botswana Pula As NDP&#8217;s Lukato Blames Past Leadership for Bridge Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>Political leaders and National Democratic Party leader Martin Lukato are blaming past failures and corruption for the continued, illegal use of the Botswana pula in Namibia&#8217;s eastern Zambezi region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Impalila and Kasika islands are still trading with the Botswana pula, 36 years after Namibia&#8217;s independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Under the Currency and Exchanges Act of 1933, the Namibia dollar (NAD) and South African rand (ZAR) are the only legal currency in Namibia.<\/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\/\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603240042.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political leaders and National Democratic Party leader Martin Lukato are blaming past failures and corruption for the continued, illegal use of the Botswana pula in Namibia&#8217;s eastern Zambezi region. Impalila and Kasika islands are still trading with the Botswana pula, 36 years after Namibia&#8217;s independence. Under the Currency and Exchanges Act of 1933, the Namibia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229327,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,8259,4718,2462,11058,6190,7152,8771,17599,4706,54074,257,19531,254,7392],"class_list":["post-229326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blames","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-bridge","tag-delays","tag-eastern","tag-leadership","tag-lukato","tag-namibia","tag-ndps","tag-news","tag-pula","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambezi"],"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\/229326","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=229326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}