{"id":232231,"date":"2026-05-03T16:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-sends-strong-karate-team-to-wukf-champs\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T16:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T14:03:58","slug":"namibia-sends-strong-karate-team-to-wukf-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-sends-strong-karate-team-to-wukf-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Sends Strong Karate Team to Wukf Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>A Namibian team of 14 karatekas will compete in the World Union of Karate-Do Federations (WUKF) South African National Championships &amp; Afro-Asia Open, which start in Gqeberha today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">According to a press release issued by the Namibia World Union of Karate-Do Federations (NWUKF), more than 1 200 competitors from South Africa, Namibia, Mauritius, Reunion, the United States and Scotland will compete in what promises to be a landmark celebration of WUKF Karate and Kobudo on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604300624.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>A Namibian team of 14 karatekas will compete in the World Union of Karate-Do Federations (WUKF) South African National Championships &amp; Afro-Asia Open, which start in Gqeberha today. According to a press release issued by the Namibia World Union of Karate-Do Federations (NWUKF), more than 1 200 competitors from South Africa, Namibia, Mauritius, Reunion, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232232,"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":[258,256,11203,6703,4706,724,257,7281,254,6948,7142,54327],"class_list":["post-232231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-champs","tag-karate","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-sends","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strong","tag-team","tag-wukf"],"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\/232231","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=232231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}