{"id":239546,"date":"2026-07-26T07:25:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-windhoek-councillor-wants-salaries-paid-twice-a-month\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:25:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:25:39","slug":"namibia-windhoek-councillor-wants-salaries-paid-twice-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-windhoek-councillor-wants-salaries-paid-twice-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Windhoek Councillor Wants Salaries Paid Twice a Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>City of Windhoek councillor Fransina Kahungu says salaries should be paid in two instalments each month to help people manage their finances.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Kahungu, who also serves as secretary of the Swapo Party Women&#8217;s Council, says the proposal could encourage better financial planning, as many people overspend soon after receiving their salaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Speaking to The Namibian, she says being paid twice a month could help prevent people from running out of money before their next pay day. She adds that she plans&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607240092.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>City of Windhoek councillor Fransina Kahungu says salaries should be paid in two instalments each month to help people manage their finances. Kahungu, who also serves as secretary of the Swapo Party Women&#8217;s Council, says the proposal could encourage better financial planning, as many people overspend soon after receiving their salaries. Speaking to The Namibian, [&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":[258,256,17818,7670,4706,724,257,12206,19058,254,1582],"class_list":["post-239546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-councillor","tag-month","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-paid","tag-salaries","tag-south-africa-today","tag-windhoek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239546","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=239546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239546\/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=239546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}