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In the first six months of 2026, 37 lives were tragically lost on Namibia’s roads, a shocking toll for a nation of three million people.<\/em><\/p>\n These individuals are not just statistics; they were a mother returning home from a night shift and a father crossing the B1 road after a long day at work.<\/p>\n By June, Namibia had recorded 229 road deaths in less than six months, with Windhoek leading.<\/p>\n That is a 29% increase in pedestrian fatalities compared to 2025, according to the Motor Vehicle Accident (MVA)…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> In the first six months of 2026, 37 lives were tragically lost on Namibia’s roads, a shocking toll for a nation of three million people. These individuals are not just statistics; they were a mother returning home from a night shift and a father crossing the B1 road after a long day at work. By […]<\/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":[258,256,7796,19218,6530,8849,4706,724,7974,257,254],"class_list":["post-238760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-change","tag-didnt","tag-heres","tag-home","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibians","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238760","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=238760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238760\/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=238760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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