{"id":246118,"date":"2026-10-01T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-over-1700-teachers-appointed\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:00:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:00:38","slug":"namibia-over-1700-teachers-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-over-1700-teachers-appointed\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Over 1,700 Teachers Appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">At least 1 760 teachers were recruited over the past four years while the number of classrooms increased from 1 550 to 1 836 during the same period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Additionally, the introduction of Jolly Phonics and PE4Life in the Junior Primary phase has sparked a debate over teacher workload, with concerns that educators in overcrowded classrooms are being placed under increasing pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The issue was raised in the National Assembly by Independent Patriots for Change parliamentarian Abed Hishoono, who&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610010137.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>At least 1 760 teachers were recruited over the past four years while the number of classrooms increased from 1 550 to 1 836 during the same period. Additionally, the introduction of Jolly Phonics and PE4Life in the Junior Primary phase has sparked a debate over teacher workload, with concerns that educators in overcrowded classrooms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":246119,"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":[258,256,10924,4706,724,257,254,7113],"class_list":["post-246118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appointed","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teachers"],"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\/246118","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=246118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}