{"id":104301,"date":"2024-12-05T06:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T06:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/12\/05\/ruto-congratulates-namibia-president-elect-netumbo-nandi-ndaitwah\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T06:02:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T06:02:58","slug":"ruto-congratulates-namibia-president-elect-netumbo-nandi-ndaitwah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ruto-congratulates-namibia-president-elect-netumbo-nandi-ndaitwah\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruto congratulates Namibia President-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President William Ruto has sent a message of congratulations to Namibia\u2019s President-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his message, Kenya\u2019s Head of State said that Netumbo Nandi\u2019s election victory is a powerful reminder that there is no limit to what one can achieve in politics.<\/p>\n<p>Netumbo Nandi is the fourth ever elected woman President .in Africa<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations Your Excellency Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on your election as the fifth President of the Republic of Namibia,\u201d said President William Ruto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour election as Namibia\u2019s first woman President \u2013 and the fourth ever elected woman President in Africa \u2013 is a powerful reminder to the people of our continent that there is no limit to what they can achieve in politics,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The 72-year-old made history by being elected as Namibia\u2019s first female president after garnering more than 57% of the vote, with her closest rival, Panduleni Itula, getting 26%, according to the electoral commission.<\/p>\n<p>Nandi-Ndaitwah has been a loyal member of the governing party, Swapo, since she was a teenager and pledges to lead Namibia\u2019s economic transformation.<\/p>\n<p>She was born in 1952, in the northern village of Onamutai. She was the ninth of 13 children and her father was an Anglican clergyman.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Namibia was known as South West Africa and its people were under occupation from South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Nandi-Ndaitwah joined Swapo, then a liberation movement resisting South Africa\u2019s white-minority rule, when she was only 14.<\/p>\n<p>A passionate activist, Nandi-Ndaitwah became a leader of Swapo\u2019s Youth League.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.ke\/ruto-congratulates-namibia-president-elect-netumbo-nandi-ndaitwah\/\">Ruto congratulates Namibia President-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President William Ruto has sent a message of congratulations to Namibia\u2019s President-elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah. In his message, Kenya\u2019s Head of State said that Netumbo Nandi\u2019s election victory is a powerful reminder that there is no limit to what one can achieve in politics. Netumbo Nandi is the fourth ever elected woman President .in Africa \u201cCongratulations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}