{"id":3529,"date":"2014-07-03T20:10:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T13:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3529"},"modified":"2014-07-03T20:11:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T13:11:06","slug":"president-of-namibia-ashamed-by-crimes-committed-against-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/president-of-namibia-ashamed-by-crimes-committed-against-women\/","title":{"rendered":"President of Namibia ashamed by crimes committed against women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Hifikepunye Pohamba said he was ashamed by the high levels of gender-based violence and the hideous crimes committed against women by Namibian men.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the second National Gender-Based Violence Conference, organised by the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday in the capital, Pohamba said the country has gained a shameful reputation because of the ongoing violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat kind of a society am I leading? We continue to lose innocent lives, especially those of women and girls as a result of gender-based violence, perpetrated mostly by men. We are destroying the good name of our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The conference running under the theme \u2018Unifying Action to Eliminate Gender-Based Violence in Namibia\u2019 was attended by different stakeholders, among them traditional leaders, gender-based violence survivors, and church leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The chairperson of the Council of Traditional Leaders, Immanuel Gaseb, said the Namibian society has lost its moral values&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Namibia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/indexx.php?id=14807&amp;page_type=story_detail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hifikepunye Pohamba said he was ashamed by the high levels of gender-based violence and the hideous crimes committed against women by Namibian men. Speaking at the second National Gender-Based Violence Conference, organised by the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday in the capital, Pohamba said the country has gained a shameful reputation because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,2055,2057,2054,4706,724,2056,257,254,4693],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crimes-committed-against-women","tag-eliminate-gender-based-violence-in-namibia","tag-high-levels-of-gender-based-violence","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-national-gender-based-violence-conference","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}