{"id":238156,"date":"2026-07-05T18:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-city-prioritises-fire-prevention-education\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T18:34:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:34:01","slug":"namibia-city-prioritises-fire-prevention-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-city-prioritises-fire-prevention-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: City Prioritises Fire Prevention Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Mayor of Windhoek Sakarias Uunona has urged the city&#8217;s property owners to clear overgrown vegetation around their premises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">This is in light of the start of the high-risk grass and veld fire season, which persists through to October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Speaking during the latest City of Windhoek ordinary council meeting, Uunona stated that the proactive measure is a legal necessity under Regulation 56 (Part 4) of the Windhoek Fire Brigade Service Regulations, governing safety requirements on premises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607030022.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 Mayor of Windhoek Sakarias Uunona has urged the city&#8217;s property owners to clear overgrown vegetation around their premises. This is in light of the start of the high-risk grass and veld fire season, which persists through to October. Speaking during the latest City of Windhoek ordinary council meeting, Uunona stated that the proactive measure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6603,1632,6600,4706,724,257,6356,10062,254],"class_list":["post-238156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-city","tag-education","tag-fire","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-prevention","tag-prioritises","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238156","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=238156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}