{"id":229723,"date":"2026-04-07T02:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-the-power-of-one-pound\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:30:45","slug":"namibia-the-power-of-one-pound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-the-power-of-one-pound\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: The Power of One Pound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>When I heard the story of how one pound made such an enormous difference to a person&#8217;s life that it created a ripple effect of positivity reaching many others, I was intrigued.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">I had mentioned to my friend, Ndeitunga Shatona, in conversation that I was a story seeker &#8211; always on the lookout for a story that was worth sharing. She immediately told me she had a wonderful story of how one pound had made a huge impact on a woman&#8217;s life, and put me in contact with Pashukeni Shoombe (90).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">As luck would&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604060659.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>When I heard the story of how one pound made such an enormous difference to a person&#8217;s life that it created a ripple effect of positivity reaching many others, I was intrigued. I had mentioned to my friend, Ndeitunga Shatona, in conversation that I was a story seeker &#8211; always on the lookout for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229724,"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":[258,256,4706,724,257,16599,7047,254],"class_list":["post-229723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pound","tag-power","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\/229723","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=229723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}