{"id":240857,"date":"2026-08-11T07:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-urgent-action-needed-on-beneficiation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:59:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:59:53","slug":"namibia-urgent-action-needed-on-beneficiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-urgent-action-needed-on-beneficiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Urgent Action Needed On Beneficiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah&#8217;s call to shift towards implementation, accountability, and delivery resonates deeply in a nation where inequality remains a pressing socio-political concern.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">At the official opening of the 13th edition of the annual Mining Expo and Conference in Windhoek recently, Nandi-Ndaitwah delivered a message to capital and policymakers alike: The era of viewing Africa purely through the lens of raw material extraction must come to an end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Her most notable quote, &#8220;Namibians&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608100686.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>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah&#8217;s call to shift towards implementation, accountability, and delivery resonates deeply in a nation where inequality remains a pressing socio-political concern. At the official opening of the 13th edition of the annual Mining Expo and Conference in Windhoek recently, Nandi-Ndaitwah delivered a message to capital and policymakers alike: The era of viewing Africa [&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":[6394,258,256,43348,4706,724,6424,257,254,11318],"class_list":["post-240857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beneficiation","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-needed","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urgent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240857","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=240857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240857\/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=240857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}