{"id":247065,"date":"2026-10-13T19:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-appoints-first-nuclear-commissioner\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T19:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T17:30:19","slug":"namibia-appoints-first-nuclear-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-appoints-first-nuclear-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Appoints First Nuclear Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>Prime minister Elijah Ngurare has appointed John Titus as Namibia&#8217;s first nuclear commissioner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">This comes as the country prepares to explore nuclear power as a future source of electricity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Titus, a director in the Ministry of Industries, Mines and Energy, will coordinate the country&#8217;s nuclear energy programme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Earlier this year, the health ministry conducted public consultations on the nuclear bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The draft legislation, which is set to replace the Atomic Energy and Radiation Protection Act&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610130270.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>Prime minister Elijah Ngurare has appointed John Titus as Namibia&#8217;s first nuclear commissioner. This comes as the country prepares to explore nuclear power as a future source of electricity. Titus, a director in the Ministry of Industries, Mines and Energy, will coordinate the country&#8217;s nuclear energy programme. Earlier this year, the health ministry conducted public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247066,"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":[258,256,8752,6350,4706,724,257,5141,254],"class_list":["post-247065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appoints","tag-commissioner","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nuclear","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\/247065","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=247065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}