{"id":239215,"date":"2026-07-21T19:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-witkop-learners-recover-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:14:06","slug":"namibia-witkop-learners-recover-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-witkop-learners-recover-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Witkop Learners Recover &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Learners from Witkop Primary School who were hospitalised after falling ill following the consumption of fish cakes at the GoodHope Hostel have recovered and returned to school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) confirmed that 101 learners were clinically assessed at St Mary&#8217;s District Hospital in Rehoboth after developing gastrointestinal symptoms, including vomiting and diarrhoea, following the incident on 9 July 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">According to the ministry, 80 learners presented at the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607210697.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>Learners from Witkop Primary School who were hospitalised after falling ill following the consumption of fish cakes at the GoodHope Hostel have recovered and returned to school. The Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) confirmed that 101 learners were clinically assessed at St Mary&#8217;s District Hospital in Rehoboth after developing gastrointestinal symptoms, including vomiting [&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":[258,256,42655,6139,4706,724,257,11725,254,54901],"class_list":["post-239215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-learners","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-recover","tag-south-africa-today","tag-witkop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239215","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=239215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239215\/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=239215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}