{"id":245246,"date":"2026-09-23T04:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-car-jack-slip-claims-katutura-man\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T04:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:30:18","slug":"namibia-car-jack-slip-claims-katutura-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-car-jack-slip-claims-katutura-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Car Jack Slip Claims Katutura Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>A man died at Katutura after the vehicle he was repairing fell on him last week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;The deceased was fixing the vehicle from underneath when the jack moved, causing the vehicle to fall on him,&#8221; national police spokesperson deputy commissioner Kauna Shikwambi says in the weekend police report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">The man (33) died on 18 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In the Zambezi region, two Zambian nationals, aged 43 and six, drowned in the Mpukano River channel in the Ikaba area after a hippo allegedly struck and capsised their canoe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609220563.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 man died at Katutura after the vehicle he was repairing fell on him last week. &#8220;The deceased was fixing the vehicle from underneath when the jack moved, causing the vehicle to fall on him,&#8221; national police spokesperson deputy commissioner Kauna Shikwambi says in the weekend police report. The man (33) died on 18 September. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":245247,"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":[258,256,302,8117,33378,23437,6867,4706,724,257,33016,254],"class_list":["post-245246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-car","tag-claims","tag-jack","tag-katutura","tag-man","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-slip","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\/245246","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=245246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}