{"id":234260,"date":"2026-05-24T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-windhoek-residents-demand-lab-evidence-on-tap-safety\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T04:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:50:00","slug":"namibia-windhoek-residents-demand-lab-evidence-on-tap-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-windhoek-residents-demand-lab-evidence-on-tap-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Windhoek Residents Demand Lab Evidence On Tap Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>The Residents and Ratepayers Association has demanded laboratory results after a suspected murder victim&#8217;s body was discovered at a Windhoek water treatment facility.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">This comes after the Windhoek Municipality assured the public that the city&#8217;s water is safe, following the discovery of the body at the Gammams Water Care Works facility on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The body of Euhudt Timbo (47) was reportedly found in one of the machines used during the water treatment process at the facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">The police say Timbo&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605220744.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 Residents and Ratepayers Association has demanded laboratory results after a suspected murder victim&#8217;s body was discovered at a Windhoek water treatment facility. This comes after the Windhoek Municipality assured the public that the city&#8217;s water is safe, following the discovery of the body at the Gammams Water Care Works facility on Sunday. The body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234261,"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":[258,256,7617,7013,14592,4706,724,257,4288,4672,254,21792,1582],"class_list":["post-234260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-demand","tag-evidence","tag-lab","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-residents","tag-safety","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tap","tag-windhoek"],"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\/234260","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=234260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}