WINDHOEK: African leaders past and present gathered in Namibia on Saturday (Mar 1) to bury the country’s “founding father” Sam Nujoma, who challenged colonialism and a military occupation by South Africa’s racist white minority government.
Dignitaries including South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, former President Thabo Mbeki and ex-Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete attended the funeral of Nujoma, who rose from herding cattle as a boy to lead the sparsely-populated, mostly desert southern African country on March 21, 1990.
“We fought under your command, … won the liberation struggle, and forever removed apartheid colonialism from the face of Namibia,” President Nangolo Mbumba said in a speech.
