{"id":187,"date":"2017-03-22T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T12:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww5.msu.ac.zw\/international-relations\/2017\/03\/22\/celebrating-namibias-27th-independence-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2019-05-30T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T11:13:32","slug":"celebrating-namibias-27th-independence-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww5.msu.ac.zw\/international-relations\/2017\/03\/22\/celebrating-namibias-27th-independence-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Namibia\u2019s 27th Independence Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Relations Office in conjunction with the Division of Students Affairs, hosted a successful commemoration of Namibia\u2019s Independence day on the 21<sup>st<\/sup> of March 2017. The colourful event was held at the Midlands State University Gweru campus. The glowing smiles on the faces of the students from Namibia proved beyond doubt, the unparalleled Zimbabwean hospitality.<\/p>\n<p>Alumni members from the Windhoek chapter supported the funfilled event through social media posts on the alma matter platforms. The Namibian students expressed gratitude for the continuous hospitality shown to them by Midlands State University. A representative of the students, Mr. Mwashindongwe stated, \u201cWe had not expected the event (independence celebrations) to be this magnificent. The University is constantly considering the international community time and again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Key note speaker at the event, Midlands State University Acting Dean of International Relations, Mr. Peter Mandava highlighted the essence of Pan Africanism in today\u2019s youthful community. In a speech filled with the history of Namibia the Dean went on to urge the current crop of students to take a leaf from the founding fathers of Africa in sharing the African communion. Mr.Mandava emphasized that Midlands State university keeps setting the pace in providing the \u2018\u2019Model Africa\u2019\u2019, a home away from home for all its international students.<\/p>\n<p>The Independence celebration came barely three months after Zimbabwe\u2019s premier University hosted more than ten African countries during the 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Pan African Universities Debate Championship at the Gweru campus, marking its territory on the international spectrum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The glowing smiles on the faces of the students from Namibia proved beyond doubt, the unparalleled Zimbabwean hospitality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsmag-single-post":"","newsmag-recent-post-big":"","newsmag-post-horizontal":"","newsmag-vertical-post":"","newsmag-post-grid":"","newsmag-post-grid-small":"","newsmag-recent-post-list-image":"","newsmag-slider-image":"","thumb_255x255":"","audioigniter_cover":""},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>The glowing smiles on the faces of the students from Namibia proved beyond doubt, the unparalleled Zimbabwean hospitality.<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/ww5.msu.ac.zw\/international-relations\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Information Public Relations","url":"https:\/\/ww5.msu.ac.zw\/international-relations\/author\/infoandpr\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - 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