{"id":241409,"date":"2026-08-18T20:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mps-push-small-scale-mining-sector-overhaul\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:14:13","slug":"namibia-mps-push-small-scale-mining-sector-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mps-push-small-scale-mining-sector-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: MPs Push Small-Scale Mining Sector Overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural Resources Tobie Aupindi says Namibia&#8217;s small-scale mining sector requires urgent legislative and institutional reforms to unlock its potential and address persistent challenges facing miners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">He made these remarks at the conclusion of the committee&#8217;s oversight visit to small-scale mining areas in the Erongo region last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The committee visited several mining sites and engaged small-scale miners and traditional leaders as part of its&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608180638.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>Chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural Resources Tobie Aupindi says Namibia&#8217;s small-scale mining sector requires urgent legislative and institutional reforms to unlock its potential and address persistent challenges facing miners. He made these remarks at the conclusion of the committee&#8217;s oversight visit to small-scale mining areas in the Erongo region last week. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6477,7260,4706,724,257,17947,6354,5991,18027,254],"class_list":["post-241409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-mining","tag-mps","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-overhaul","tag-push","tag-sector","tag-smallscale","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241409","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=241409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}