{"id":236570,"date":"2026-06-17T05:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-activist-says-speed-humps-are-highway-hazards\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T05:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:47:14","slug":"namibia-activist-says-speed-humps-are-highway-hazards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-activist-says-speed-humps-are-highway-hazards\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Activist Says Speed Humps Are Highway Hazards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>Speed humps placed on Windhoek&#8217;s Western Bypass highway 10 days ago endanger motorists using the high-speed road, activist Michael Amushelelo argued in the Windhoek High Court on Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Amushelelo made the argument during the hearing of an urgent application with which he rushed to the court in an attempt to have newly installed speed humps removed from the Western Bypass road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Judge Gabriel Komboni postponed the delivery of his ruling on Amushelelo&#8217;s urgent application to 30 June after hearing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606160646.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>Speed humps placed on Windhoek&#8217;s Western Bypass highway 10 days ago endanger motorists using the high-speed road, activist Michael Amushelelo argued in the Windhoek High Court on Friday. Amushelelo made the argument during the hearing of an urgent application with which he rushed to the court in an attempt to have newly installed speed humps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":236571,"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":[8956,258,256,25013,9419,54637,4706,724,257,254,11575],"class_list":["post-236570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-activist","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-hazards","tag-highway","tag-humps","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speed"],"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\/236570","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=236570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}