{"id":230478,"date":"2026-04-16T03:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-man-dies-in-donkey-cart-accident-in-omusati\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T03:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:02:54","slug":"namibia-man-dies-in-donkey-cart-accident-in-omusati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-man-dies-in-donkey-cart-accident-in-omusati\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Man Dies in Donkey Cart Accident in Omusati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Namibian Police in the Omusati region have confirmed that a 28-year-old man died in a donkey cart accident at Otamanzi village on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Omusati police regional commander commissioner Ismael Basson says the incident occurred around 08h00 when the deceased was driving a donkey cart that hit a tree stump, causing it to overturn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;The driver and his passenger were both thrown out when the cart overturned, and it fell on them. The driver died on the spot, while the passenger sustained slight&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604150709.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 Namibian Police in the Omusati region have confirmed that a 28-year-old man died in a donkey cart accident at Otamanzi village on Sunday. Omusati police regional commander commissioner Ismael Basson says the incident occurred around 08h00 when the deceased was driving a donkey cart that hit a tree stump, causing it to overturn. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230479,"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":[7264,258,256,34140,6868,17368,6867,4706,724,257,20114,254],"class_list":["post-230478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-accident","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cart","tag-dies","tag-donkey","tag-man","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-omusati","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\/230478","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=230478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}