{"id":230720,"date":"2026-04-19T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-kavango-west-pupils-barred-from-bringing-snacks-to-hostel\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:30:16","slug":"namibia-kavango-west-pupils-barred-from-bringing-snacks-to-hostel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-kavango-west-pupils-barred-from-bringing-snacks-to-hostel\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Kavango West Pupils Barred From Bringing Snacks to Hostel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>Pupils at Leevi Hakusembe Senior Secondary School in the Kavango West region have been barred from bringing food to the hostel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The restriction applies to common food items such as instant porridge, cereal, snacks and other basic food items.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">School principal Amandus Hamutenya has confirmed the decision, saying it was introduced to address low turnout at the school&#8217;s dining hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">&#8220;We realised that many pupils do not want to eat the food provided by the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170072.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>Pupils at Leevi Hakusembe Senior Secondary School in the Kavango West region have been barred from bringing food to the hostel. The restriction applies to common food items such as instant porridge, cereal, snacks and other basic food items. School principal Amandus Hamutenya has confirmed the decision, saying it was introduced to address low turnout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230721,"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":[258,256,7999,17393,27191,9725,4706,724,257,17917,54205,254,4375],"class_list":["post-230720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-barred","tag-bringing","tag-hostel","tag-kavango","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pupils","tag-snacks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west"],"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\/230720","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=230720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}