On behalf of the federal government and other people of South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa has supplied condolences to the federal government and other people of Namibia following the passing of the nation’s first democratically-elected president Dr Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma.
The 95-year-old handed away on Saturday, 8 February, in Windhoek, Namibia’s capital metropolis.
NAMIBIA’S FOUNDING PRESIDENT SAM NUJOMA HAS DIED
Nujoma led Namibia from 1990 and retired as head of state in 2005. Nevertheless, he continued to guide Namibia’s liberation celebration the South West Africa Individuals’s Organisation (Swapo) earlier than stepping down in 2007 as president after 47 years on the helm, BBC Information reported.
“Our Founding Father lived a protracted and consequential life throughout which he exceptionally served the folks of his beloved nation. Our Founding Father heroically marshalled the Namibian folks throughout the darkest hours of our liberation wrestle till the attainment of freedom and independence on the twenty first of March 1990.
“As Founding President, His Excellency, Dr. Sam Nujoma supplied most management to our nation and spared no effort to encourage every Namibian to construct a rustic that will stand tall and proud among the many nations of the world. In that vein, our venerable chief, Dr. Nujoma didn’t solely blaze the path to freedom – however he additionally impressed us to rise to our ft and to turn into masters of this huge land of our ancestors,” The nation’s present President Dr Nangolo Mbumba stated.
Following the anti-apartheid activist’s passing, Ramaphosa stated his ideas are with Namibian President Dr Nangolo Mbumba and the federal government of South Africa’s north western neighbour who’re experiencing this loss 12 months following the passing of President Hage Geingob.
President Ramaphosa stated as neighbours and compatriots, South Africa is united in grief with Namibians who’ve misplaced the chief of the Namibian revolution, who’s inseparable from our personal historical past of wrestle and liberation.
“Dr Sam Nujoma was a rare freedom fighter who divided his revolutionary programme between Namibia’s personal wrestle towards South African colonialism and the liberation of South Africa from apartheid.
“In exile and on house soil, he led the Ovambo Individuals’s Organisation, the South West Africa Individuals’s Organisation and the Individuals’s Liberation Military of Namibia towards the seemingly unshakeable may of colonial and apartheid authorities and forces,” Ramaphosa stated.
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