{"id":240409,"date":"2026-08-05T19:49:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-cenored-technician-electrocuted-on-duty\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:49:29","slug":"namibia-cenored-technician-electrocuted-on-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-cenored-technician-electrocuted-on-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Cenored Technician Electrocuted On Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Otjiwarongo \u2014 A technician employed by the Central North Regional Electricity Distributor (Cenored) and based in Otjiwarongo, died after being electrocuted while on duty at a farm between Otavi and Tsumeb on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Cenored spokesperson Chali Matengu, in a media statement issued Friday morning, confirmed the death of one of the company&#8217;s employees following a workplace accident involving a technical team. According to Matengu, four technical staff members were working on a reticulation&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608050585.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Otjiwarongo \u2014 A technician employed by the Central North Regional Electricity Distributor (Cenored) and based in Otjiwarongo, died after being electrocuted while on duty at a farm between Otavi and Tsumeb on Thursday night. Cenored spokesperson Chali Matengu, in a media statement issued Friday morning, confirmed the death of one of the company&#8217;s employees following [&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":[258,256,42674,9134,7965,4706,724,257,254,16558],"class_list":["post-240409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cenored","tag-duty","tag-electrocuted","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-technician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240409","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=240409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240409\/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=240409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}