{"id":3977,"date":"2014-07-12T13:10:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T06:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2014-07-12T13:10:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T06:10:19","slug":"neff-to-target-swapos-two-thirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/neff-to-target-swapos-two-thirds\/","title":{"rendered":"NEFF to target Swapo&#8217;s two-thirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe were the ones who campaigned for Swapo to achieve a two-thirds majority and we are the ones who are going to undo Swapo\u2019s two-thirds majority because it is being abused for the benefit of a few people,\u201d says Festus Shaduva, the interim administration and information secretary of the Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an exclusive interview with Namibian Sun at Oshakati on Wednesday, Shaduva outlined the aims and objectives of Namibia\u2019s youngest political formation, saying the idea to form the NEFF came as a result of the current lack of direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNamibia does not have a strong opposition party to tame Swapo\u2019s perpetuation of socio-economic inequalities. Current leaders have strayed from path of the liberation struggle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Shaduva said his party wants equal distribution of the country\u2019s wealth, something he said can not be done by selfish leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we cannot simply sit here and blame selfish leaders. We have to do something to correct the situation. That is why the NEFF was established,\u201d he said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Namibia News\" href=\"http:\/\/sun.com.na\/politics\/neff-target-swapos-two-thirds.68219\" 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>\u201cWe were the ones who campaigned for Swapo to achieve a two-thirds majority and we are the ones who are going to undo Swapo\u2019s two-thirds majority because it is being abused for the benefit of a few people,\u201d says Festus Shaduva, the interim administration and information secretary of the Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF). Speaking [&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":[258,256,2571,4706,1660,724,1694,257,2572,254,4693,1664],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-festus-shaduva","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-economic-freedom-fighters","tag-namibia-news","tag-neff","tag-news","tag-socio-economic-inequalities","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa","tag-swapo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","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=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/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=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}