{"id":244151,"date":"2026-09-12T09:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-city-govt-in-n357m-barter-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:08:27","slug":"namibia-city-govt-in-n357m-barter-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-city-govt-in-n357m-barter-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: City, Govt in N$357m Barter Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The City of Windhoek has signed a land-swap agreement with the government to settle N$357.8 million in capital debt in exchange for municipal land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">However, the first phase of the deal leaves a N$66.3 million shortfall that could require the transfer of more City land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The agreement, signed on 27 April 2026 between the City and the Ministry of Finance, has been approved by Cabinet and will be implemented in two phases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Finance&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609110340.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 City of Windhoek has signed a land-swap agreement with the government to settle N$357.8 million in capital debt in exchange for municipal land. However, the first phase of the deal leaves a N$66.3 million shortfall that could require the transfer of more City land. The agreement, signed on 27 April 2026 between the City [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":244152,"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":[258,256,14001,6603,7012,4357,55414,4706,724,257,254],"class_list":["post-244151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-barter","tag-city","tag-deal","tag-govt","tag-n357m","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","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\/244151","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=244151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}