{"id":243560,"date":"2026-09-07T08:57:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nandi-ndaitwah-backer-gets-oshakati-guest-house-job\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T08:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:57:55","slug":"namibia-nandi-ndaitwah-backer-gets-oshakati-guest-house-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nandi-ndaitwah-backer-gets-oshakati-guest-house-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Nandi-Ndaitwah Backer Gets Oshakati Guest House Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>A Businessman who campaigned for president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah at a funeral three years ago has been awarded the contract for the first phase of the presidential guest house at Oshakati.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Presidency has confirmed that Emirates Trading CC, led by northern businessman Josua &#8216;Emirates&#8217; Haimbodi, will undertake the first phase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Haimbodi has donated at least N$1 million to Swapo over the past decade, pledging N$500 000 ahead of the 2024 general election and donating the same amount in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609070074.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 Businessman who campaigned for president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah at a funeral three years ago has been awarded the contract for the first phase of the presidential guest house at Oshakati. The Presidency has confirmed that Emirates Trading CC, led by northern businessman Josua &#8216;Emirates&#8217; Haimbodi, will undertake the first phase. Haimbodi has donated at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":243561,"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":[258,256,55370,7205,5110,9679,4706,724,20099,257,18835,254],"class_list":["post-243560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backer","tag-guest","tag-house","tag-job","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nandindaitwah","tag-news","tag-oshakati","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\/243560","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=243560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}