{"id":1984,"date":"2021-09-10T13:26:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T13:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/city-inaugurates-junior-mayor-and-councillors"},"modified":"2021-09-10T13:43:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T13:43:21","slug":"city-inaugurates-junior-mayor-and-councillors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/city-inaugurates-junior-mayor-and-councillors","title":{"rendered":"City inaugurates junior mayor and councillors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><b>THE City of Windhoek on Thursday welcomed new junior mayors for 2021\/22.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the inauguration, Windhoek mayor Job Amupanda advised the new junior councillors not to end their political journey at junior level, but to strive to be future senior councillors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don&#8217;t expect you to be ceremonial, we expect you to be substantive junior councillors,\u201d Amupanda said.<\/p>\n<p>Lesley Shetukana from Dawid Bezuidenhoudt Secondary School has been elected as new junior mayor and is deputised by Ngeje Kavita from Chairman Mao Zedong High School.<\/p>\n<p>Shetukana said his mission as junior mayor is to create a child-friendly environment by keeping children in schools and raising awareness of boys&#8217; mental health.<\/p>\n<p>There are 80 junior councillors in total, with 40 councillors in Grade 11 and 40 understudies in Grade 10. 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