{"id":240998,"date":"2026-08-13T08:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-zaamwani-reads-fishing-industry-riot-act\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:03:43","slug":"namibia-zaamwani-reads-fishing-industry-riot-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-zaamwani-reads-fishing-industry-riot-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Zaamwani Reads Fishing Industry Riot Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Walvis Bay \u2014 Fisheries minister Inge Zaamwani has warned players in the fishing industry against attempting to improperly influence, pressure or entice ministry officials into making decisions in their favour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The onus to prevent corruption, the minister said, requires responsibility from both government and the private sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Speaking at the opening of a five-day Corruption Vulnerability Risk Assessment Workshop for the fisheries sector in Walvis Bay, the minister said fishing rights and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608120628.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>Walvis Bay \u2014 Fisheries minister Inge Zaamwani has warned players in the fishing industry against attempting to improperly influence, pressure or entice ministry officials into making decisions in their favour. The onus to prevent corruption, the minister said, requires responsibility from both government and the private sector. Speaking at the opening of a five-day Corruption [&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":[6991,258,256,6919,8317,4706,724,257,13792,10213,254,55147],"class_list":["post-240998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-act","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fishing","tag-industry","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-reads","tag-riot","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zaamwani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240998","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=240998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240998\/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=240998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}