{"id":250463,"date":"2026-11-15T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swakop-municipality-confirms-death-on-duty\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T07:00:08","slug":"namibia-swakop-municipality-confirms-death-on-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-swakop-municipality-confirms-death-on-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Swakop Municipality Confirms Death On Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"185\">The Municipality of Swakopmund has confirmed a fatal workplace incident that occurred on Wednesday, 11 November 2026, at the Municipal Rest Camp in Swakopmund, during renovation and demolition works at the Fish Bungalows. In a media statement yesterday, it said the incident occurred during demolition activities when a section of an existing concrete wall collapsed, fatally injuring Stephanus Hamutenya, a casual worker engaged on the project by the appointed contractor, Frampton Investment CC&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611130523.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>The Municipality of Swakopmund has confirmed a fatal workplace incident that occurred on Wednesday, 11 November 2026, at the Municipal Rest Camp in Swakopmund, during renovation and demolition works at the Fish Bungalows. In a media statement yesterday, it said the incident occurred during demolition activities when a section of an existing concrete wall collapsed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":250464,"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":[258,256,6824,6974,9134,22888,4706,724,257,254,21252],"class_list":["post-250463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confirms","tag-death","tag-duty","tag-municipality","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swakop"],"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\/250463","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=250463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}