{"id":248827,"date":"2026-11-01T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-male-hairdresser-challenges-gender-stereotypes\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T14:00:21","slug":"namibia-male-hairdresser-challenges-gender-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-male-hairdresser-challenges-gender-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Male Hairdresser Challenges Gender Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><em>Max Henrich<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">ONGWEDIVA- At just 20-years old, Tangeni Naifo from Oniipa village is building his future through hairdressing, challenging gender stereotypes and proving that young men can succeed in professions traditionally associated with women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Naifo&#8217;s journey began in 2022 when he got an opportunity to style a friend&#8217;s hair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The result turned out perfectly, giving him the confidence to take his abilities seriously and pursue hairdressing as a business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610280741.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>Max Henrich ONGWEDIVA- At just 20-years old, Tangeni Naifo from Oniipa village is building his future through hairdressing, challenging gender stereotypes and proving that young men can succeed in professions traditionally associated with women. Naifo&#8217;s journey began in 2022 when he got an opportunity to style a friend&#8217;s hair. The result turned out perfectly, giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":248828,"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":[258,256,6977,6029,55753,13445,4706,724,257,254,20690],"class_list":["post-248827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenges","tag-gender","tag-hairdresser","tag-male","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stereotypes"],"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\/248827","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=248827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}