{"id":234950,"date":"2026-05-31T05:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-youth-urged-to-honour-genocide-history\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T05:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:04:35","slug":"namibia-youth-urged-to-honour-genocide-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-youth-urged-to-honour-genocide-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Youth Urged to Honour Genocide History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>Education minister Sanet Steenkamp has called on young people to reject hatred, discrimination and division.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Speaking during the Genocide Remembrance Day commemorations at Ondangwa in the Oshana region on Thursday, she said Namibia&#8217;s youth are essential for building lasting peace and resolving conflict while preserving the memory of the 1904-1908 genocide against the Ovaherero and Nama people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">&#8220;Let your generation become one that transforms painful memories into constructive national purpose,&#8221; she&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605290475.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>Education minister Sanet Steenkamp has called on young people to reject hatred, discrimination and division. Speaking during the Genocide Remembrance Day commemorations at Ondangwa in the Oshana region on Thursday, she said Namibia&#8217;s youth are essential for building lasting peace and resolving conflict while preserving the memory of the 1904-1908 genocide against the Ovaherero and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234951,"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":[258,256,318,7099,10998,4706,724,257,254,6206,6276],"class_list":["post-234950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-genocide","tag-history","tag-honour","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urged","tag-youth"],"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\/234950","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=234950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}