{"id":238914,"date":"2026-07-17T19:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-sa-urged-to-stop-exporting-opportunities\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:04:55","slug":"namibia-sa-urged-to-stop-exporting-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-sa-urged-to-stop-exporting-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia, SA Urged to Stop Exporting Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has called on Namibia and South Africa to move beyond exporting raw materials, saying the two countries must stop &#8220;exporting opportunities while importing prosperity&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Ramaphosa made the remarks on Friday at the fourth session of the Namibia-South Africa Bi-National Commission in Pretoria, where he hosted president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">He said Nandi-Ndaitwah&#8217;s visit reaffirmed the strong bond between the two neighbouring countries, forged during the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607170581.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>South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has called on Namibia and South Africa to move beyond exporting raw materials, saying the two countries must stop &#8220;exporting opportunities while importing prosperity&#8221;. Ramaphosa made the remarks on Friday at the fourth session of the Namibia-South Africa Bi-National Commission in Pretoria, where he hosted president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah. He said [&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":[258,256,19571,4706,724,257,13281,254,8652,6206],"class_list":["post-238914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-exporting","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-opportunities","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stop","tag-urged"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238914","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=238914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238914\/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=238914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}