{"id":248358,"date":"2026-10-27T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-drunk-driver-challenges-imprisonment\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T23:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T21:30:15","slug":"namibia-drunk-driver-challenges-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-drunk-driver-challenges-imprisonment\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Drunk Driver Challenges Imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">A resident of Rehoboth is challenging a six-month direct term of imprisonment on a charge of contravening section 82(5)(a) of the Road Traffic and Transport Act 22 of 1999 in the Windhoek High Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The subsection prohibits driving on a public road with an excessive concentration of alcohol in an individual&#8217;s breath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Angelo van Wyk was charged and convicted on 11 May in the Rehoboth Magistrate&#8217;s Court after pleading guilty to a charge of driving with an excessive breath alcohol level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610270580.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 resident of Rehoboth is challenging a six-month direct term of imprisonment on a charge of contravening section 82(5)(a) of the Road Traffic and Transport Act 22 of 1999 in the Windhoek High Court. The subsection prohibits driving on a public road with an excessive concentration of alcohol in an individual&#8217;s breath. Angelo van Wyk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":248359,"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":[258,256,6977,7768,7583,6788,4706,724,257,254],"class_list":["post-248358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenges","tag-driver","tag-drunk","tag-imprisonment","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\/248358","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=248358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}