{"id":234887,"date":"2026-05-30T17:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-katamelo-demands-action-beyond-words-on-genocide\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T17:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:03:19","slug":"namibia-katamelo-demands-action-beyond-words-on-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-katamelo-demands-action-beyond-words-on-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Katamelo Demands Action Beyond Words On Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>The atrocities committed by Germany during the 1904-1908 genocide against the Ovaherero and Nama people can only be addressed through meaningful action, National Assembly deputy speaker Phillipus Katamelo said on Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Katamelo made the remarks during Namibia&#8217;s Genocide Remembrance Day commemoration at Shark Island at L\u00fcderitz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;As descendants of Germany living in Namibia, your words alone are not enough. Only action can truly show you mean your words,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">He urged companies such as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605290476.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 atrocities committed by Germany during the 1904-1908 genocide against the Ovaherero and Nama people can only be addressed through meaningful action, National Assembly deputy speaker Phillipus Katamelo said on Thursday. Katamelo made the remarks during Namibia&#8217;s Genocide Remembrance Day commemoration at Shark Island at L\u00fcderitz. &#8220;As descendants of Germany living in Namibia, your words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00581052:7c2f3c1b16601abf5a5bdb12c812dee8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[6394,258,256,6979,318,54498,4706,724,257,254,14539],"class_list":["post-234887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-demands","tag-genocide","tag-katamelo","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-words"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00581052:7c2f3c1b16601abf5a5bdb12c812dee8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234887","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=234887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}