{"id":247620,"date":"2026-10-20T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-opposition-split-over-speakers-removal\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T07:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:30:18","slug":"namibia-opposition-split-over-speakers-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-opposition-split-over-speakers-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Opposition Split Over Speaker&#8217;s Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>Opposition parties are divided over calls to remove National Assembly speaker Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, with some pushing for her removal and others warning that this would not solve the parliament&#8217;s deepening crises.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">This comes after Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) lawmaker Imms Nashinge in September called for a vote of no confidence in Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, saying she is ruling the parliament with an &#8220;iron fist&#8221; and bias.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Popular Democratic Movement president McHenry Venaani has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610200155.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>Opposition parties are divided over calls to remove National Assembly speaker Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, with some pushing for her removal and others warning that this would not solve the parliament&#8217;s deepening crises. This comes after Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) lawmaker Imms Nashinge in September called for a vote of no confidence in Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, saying she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247621,"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":[258,256,4706,724,257,5675,9598,254,14589,7817],"class_list":["post-247620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-removal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speakers","tag-split"],"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\/247620","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=247620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}