{"id":3835,"date":"2014-07-09T16:33:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T09:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2014-07-09T16:33:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T09:33:16","slug":"namibian-man-sells-useless-son-for-n75-000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibian-man-sells-useless-son-for-n75-000\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibian Man sells &#8216;useless&#8217; son for N$75 000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rundu Namibia &#8211; A 32-year-old man was arrested on Friday for allegedly offering to sell his 10-year-old son for N$75 000.<\/p>\n<p>Diyeve Detembero, a resident of the Kehemu informal settlement on the outskirts of Rundu, appeared in the Rundu Magistrate\u2019s Court on Monday on a charge of human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>The Thimbukushu-speaking suspect appeared before Magistrate Helen Olaiya, and indicated that he would hire his own attorney.<br \/>\nThe magistrate then postponed the case to October 2 this year for further police investigations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the charge sheet, Detembero wanted to \u201cget rid\u201d of his biological son (name withheld) because the boy is a school dropout, was \u201cuseless at home, and supporting him was a financial burden\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Namibia News\" href=\"http:\/\/sun.com.na\/crime\/man-sells-useless-son-for-n75-000.68022\" 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>Rundu Namibia &#8211; A 32-year-old man was arrested on Friday for allegedly offering to sell his 10-year-old son for N$75 000. Diyeve Detembero, a resident of the Kehemu informal settlement on the outskirts of Rundu, appeared in the Rundu Magistrate\u2019s Court on Monday on a charge of human trafficking. The Thimbukushu-speaking suspect appeared before Magistrate [&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":[258,256,2406,4706,724,257,2407,254,4693],"class_list":["post-3835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-human-trafficking","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rundu","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835","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=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/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=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}