{"id":233444,"date":"2026-05-16T16:33:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-osona-commuters-hit-with-fare-hikes-as-bus-operator-cites-rising-fuel-costs\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T16:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:33:32","slug":"namibia-osona-commuters-hit-with-fare-hikes-as-bus-operator-cites-rising-fuel-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-osona-commuters-hit-with-fare-hikes-as-bus-operator-cites-rising-fuel-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Osona Commuters Hit With Fare Hikes As Bus Operator Cites Rising Fuel Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>Commuters travelling between Osona Village and Windhoek will now pay up to N$200 more for transport after private bus operator Namib Contract Haulage (NCH) increased fares, effective 8 May.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Under the new fare structure, monthly fares increased from N$1 200 to N$1 400, weekly fares from N$400 to N$500 and daily fares from N$130 to N$150.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">In a fare adjustment notice issued last week, the company attributes the increase to rising fuel prices and vehicle maintenance costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605150545.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>Commuters travelling between Osona Village and Windhoek will now pay up to N$200 more for transport after private bus operator Namib Contract Haulage (NCH) increased fares, effective 8 May. Under the new fare structure, monthly fares increased from N$1 200 to N$1 400, weekly fares from N$400 to N$500 and daily fares from N$130 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":233445,"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":[258,256,3011,5260,19713,11509,8421,7570,17582,8032,4706,724,257,9996,43848,6678,254],"class_list":["post-233444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bus","tag-cites","tag-commuters","tag-costs","tag-fare","tag-fuel","tag-hikes","tag-hit","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-operator","tag-osona","tag-rising","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\/233444","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=233444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}