{"id":5016,"date":"2014-08-28T18:27:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2014-08-28T18:27:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:27:55","slug":"namibia-rocked-as-protester-shot-dead-in-rare-political-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-rocked-as-protester-shot-dead-in-rare-political-unrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia rocked as protester shot dead in rare political unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windhoek (AFP) &#8211; A young woman was shot dead in Namibia on Wednesday in clashes between police and the children of fallen independence fighters, a rare incidence of political violence in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Frieda Ndatipo, 26, was killed during a demonstration calling for jobs in front of headquarters of the country&#8217;s ruling party, the South West Africa People&#8217;s Organization (SWAPO).<\/p>\n<p>Two police officers were also seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>Ndatipo was one of the so-called &#8220;struggle kids&#8221; &#8212; a group of young Namibians who are calling on the government to employ them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Namibia News\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/namibia-rocked-protester-shot-dead-rare-political-unrest-191905601.html\" 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>Windhoek (AFP) &#8211; A young woman was shot dead in Namibia on Wednesday in clashes between police and the children of fallen independence fighters, a rare incidence of political violence in the country. Frieda Ndatipo, 26, was killed during a demonstration calling for jobs in front of headquarters of the country&#8217;s ruling party, the South [&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":[258,256,3790,3788,4706,724,257,3789,254,3791,4693,1664,1582],"class_list":["post-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-frieda-ndatipo","tag-independence-fighters","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-political-violence","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-west-africa-peoples-organization","tag-southern-africa","tag-swapo","tag-windhoek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","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=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/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=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}