{"id":243452,"date":"2026-09-06T08:54:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swapo-condemns-amupanda-for-addressing-parliament-wearing-jeans-speaking-on-phone\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:54:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:54:40","slug":"namibia-swapo-condemns-amupanda-for-addressing-parliament-wearing-jeans-speaking-on-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swapo-condemns-amupanda-for-addressing-parliament-wearing-jeans-speaking-on-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Swapo Condemns Amupanda for Addressing Parliament &#8216;Wearing Jeans&#8217;, Speaking On Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>A war of words has erupted between Swapo and the Affirmative Repositioning (AR) movement over the conduct of AR members of parliament in the National Assembly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Swapo information secretary Hilma Nikanor, in a statement issued on Thursday, accuses AR leader Job Amupanda and his movement of engaging in what she describes as &#8220;deliberate and politically motivated disruptive conduct&#8221; in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Nikanor says AR&#8217;s conduct amounted to &#8220;brazen acts of hooliganism and anarchy&#8221;, referring to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609040133.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>A war of words has erupted between Swapo and the Affirmative Repositioning (AR) movement over the conduct of AR members of parliament in the National Assembly. Swapo information secretary Hilma Nikanor, in a statement issued on Thursday, accuses AR leader Job Amupanda and his movement of engaging in what she describes as &#8220;deliberate and politically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":243453,"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":[15490,258,256,23781,7610,29944,4706,724,257,2412,9200,254,7813,1664,13077],"class_list":["post-243452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-addressing","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amupanda","tag-condemns","tag-jeans","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-phone","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaking","tag-swapo","tag-wearing"],"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\/243452","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=243452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}