{"id":22105,"date":"2019-03-14T16:49:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T16:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=22105"},"modified":"2019-03-21T16:54:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T16:54:14","slug":"namibia-kapofi-condemns-unholy-marriages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/namibia-kapofi-condemns-unholy-marriages\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Kapofi condemns &#8216;unholy&#8217; marriages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Okeri Ngutjinazo<\/p>\n<p><b>HOME affairs minister Frans Kapofi has condemned foreign nationals who marry Namibians to gain citizenship, saying the country was not for sale.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The minister, who turned a year in office since his appointment, made these remarks yesterday during his annual address to staff in Windhoek.<\/p>\n<p>Newly appointed executive director for the ministry Etienne Maritz and deputy minister Maureen Hinda-Mbuende were also present during the address.<\/p>\n<p>Kapofi questioned the intentions of individuals who take such extreme measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is it that you are doing in Namibia? What is your agenda? Why would you resort to marrying a Namibian whom you necessarily do not love, just because you want to be a Namibian?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Read further:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/76553\/read\/Kapofi-condemns-unholy-marriages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/76553\/read\/Kapofi-condemns-unholy-marriages<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Okeri Ngutjinazo HOME affairs minister Frans Kapofi has condemned foreign nationals who marry Namibians to gain citizenship, saying the country was not for sale. The minister, who turned a year in office since his appointment, made these remarks yesterday during his annual address to staff in Windhoek. Newly appointed executive director for the ministry [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-namibia","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22106,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22105\/revisions\/22106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}