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Ex-Namibian President, Nujoma, Dies At 95

by Innocent Odoh and Agency Report
5 months ago
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Tributes have continued to pour in following the announcement that the first president of independent Namibia, Sam Nujoma, has died at the age of 95 in the capital, Windhoek.

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The country’s current leader, Nangolo Mbumba, who announced the death in a statement, said Nujoma “inspired us to rise to our feet and to become masters of this vast land of our ancestors.”

“Our founding father lived a long and consequential life during which he exceptionally served the people of his beloved country,” Mbumba added.

Nujoma led the long fight for independence from South Africa in 1990 after helping found Namibia’s liberation movement, the South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo), in the 1960s.

After independence, Nujoma became president in 1990 and led the country until 2005. He had been hospitalised over the past three weeks with an illness from which he “could not recover”, President Mbumba said in a statement announcing the death with “utmost sorrow and sadness”.

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Nujoma retired as head of state in 2005 but continued to lead the party before stepping down in 2007 as president of the ruling Swapo party after 47 years at the helm.

Many Namibians have reacted to his death with sadness, fondly remembering him as “father of the nation”. A teary-eyed Mbumba visited Nujoma’s home to offer condolences to his family, including his wife, Kovambo Theopoldine Katjimune, 91.

Nujoma is widely credited with ensuring peace and stability after South Africa’s independence from white minority rule in 1990.

Nujoma’s policy of national reconciliation encouraged the country’s white community to remain, and they still play a significant role in farming and other sectors of the economy. He also championed the rights of women and children, including making fathers pay for the maintenance of children born out of wedlock.

Namibia’s Vice-President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, who is due to be inaugurated as president in March after leading Swapo to election victory, said his “visionary leadership and dedication to liberation and nation-building laid the foundation for our free, united nation.”

African leaders have joined in paying tribute, with African Union Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat describing Nujoma as “the epitome of courage, never wavering from his vision for a free Namibia and a unified Africa”.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa said the former Namibian president was an “extraordinary freedom fighter” who played a leading role in his country’s fight against colonialism and the campaign that ended white-minority rule in South Africa in 1994.

“President Nujoma’s leadership of a free Namibia laid the foundation for the solidarity and partnership our two countries share today – a partnership we will continue to deepen as neighbours and friends,” Ramaphosa added.

Kenya’s President William Ruto described Nujoma as a “visionary leader who dedicated his life to the liberation and development of his country.” Funeral details have not yet been announced.


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