{"id":241693,"date":"2026-08-21T08:18:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-government-moves-to-regulate-number-plate-manufacturers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:18:32","slug":"namibia-government-moves-to-regulate-number-plate-manufacturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-government-moves-to-regulate-number-plate-manufacturers\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Government Moves to Regulate Number Plate Manufacturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>The Ministry of Works and Transport is planning to tighten regulations for number plate manufacturers in Namibia, citing concerns over counterfeit and illegally produced plates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Minister Veikko Nekundi said this at a stakeholder consultation workshop in Windhoek on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">&#8220;Our ultimate objective is to ensure that every number plate on our roads is legitimate, identifiable, traceable and produced according to approved standards,&#8221; Nekundi said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">He said unauthorised number plates can be used to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608210082.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>The Ministry of Works and Transport is planning to tighten regulations for number plate manufacturers in Namibia, citing concerns over counterfeit and illegally produced plates. Minister Veikko Nekundi said this at a stakeholder consultation workshop in Windhoek on Thursday. &#8220;Our ultimate objective is to ensure that every number plate on our roads is legitimate, identifiable, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241694,"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":[258,256,6427,5237,6858,4706,724,257,7043,11817,7859,254],"class_list":["post-241693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-government","tag-manufacturers","tag-moves","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-number","tag-plate","tag-regulate","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\/241693","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=241693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}