{"id":238188,"date":"2026-07-06T06:34:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-the-man-who-keeps-oshakati-on-two-wheels\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T06:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T04:34:54","slug":"namibia-the-man-who-keeps-oshakati-on-two-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-the-man-who-keeps-oshakati-on-two-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: The Man Who Keeps Oshakati On Two Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\"><em>Most people walk past his tiny workstation without giving it a second thought. But for security guards rushing to work, children cycling to school and informal traders transporting their goods, Tobias Filipus (51) is the man who keeps Oshakati moving.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">For nearly seven years, Filipus has been repairing bicycles from his modest stand at the Oshakati Open Market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Every day, punctured tyres, broken chains and bent rims find their way to his workshop before leaving ready for the road again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607020506.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>Most people walk past his tiny workstation without giving it a second thought. But for security guards rushing to work, children cycling to school and informal traders transporting their goods, Tobias Filipus (51) is the man who keeps Oshakati moving. For nearly seven years, Filipus has been repairing bicycles from his modest stand at the [&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":[258,256,6867,4706,724,257,18835,254,28355],"class_list":["post-238188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-man","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-oshakati","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wheels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238188","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=238188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238188\/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=238188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}