Oshakti, Namibia (AP)-Sam Najuma, Fire, White Freedom Freedom Freedom fighter who led Moisture In 1990, the colorful South Africa served for independence from South Africa and for 15 years as its first president, known as his nation’s father. He was 95 years old.
On Sunday, the current Nambia President Nangolo Mumbomba announced the death of Najuma, who said that Najuma died Saturday night after he was admitted to a hospital in the capital, Windowk.
“The foundations of the Namibia Republic have been shaken,” Mambuma said in a statement. “Over the past three weeks, the founder of the Republic of Namibia and the founder of the Namibian nation was admitted to the hospital for medical treatment and medical observation due to the health of the father.”
“Unfortunately, this time, the brave son of our land could not recover from his illness.” He said that Najuma mailed the people of Namibia during the darkest hours of our freedom struggle. “
Najuma was the last of a generation of African leaders who brought their countries out of colonial or white minority rule. Nelson Mandela of South AfricaFor, for, for,. Zimbabwe’s Robert MugabeZambia’s Kannah Konda, Julius Nirir of Tanzania and Samura Mitchell of Mozambique.
He was honored as a charismatic father in his barren, very low -populated homeland in southwestern Africa, which attracted democracy and stability after a bitter war of Germany’s long colonial rule and independence from South Africa.
He spent about 30 years in exile as the leader of the Namibia Independence Movement before returning to the parliamentary elections in late 1989, the first Democratic vote in the country. He was elected president by lawmakers months later in 1990 as the independence of Namibia was confirmed.
South Africa’s President Serial Ramfosa said that Najuma directed the Namibia freedom movement “against the seemingly unprecedented power of colonial and colorful officials and forces” and a variety of movement in South Africa over its last steps of independence. Promoted.
“Sam Najuma encouraged the people of Namibia to pride and resist, which reduced the size of the population,” Ramphosa said. “The pursuit of Namibia’s independence from South Africa in 1990 gave rise to the inevitableness of our own independence.”
After the deep division of the liberation war and the division of South Africa into ethnic -based regional governments, many nominees also supported the process of national reconciliation following the process of national reconciliation, which I have been divided into ethnic regional governments with separate education and health care for each generation.
Even the political opponents praised Najuma – which was named Marxist and was accused of ruthless pressure during the deportation – it was white in government after the establishment of a democratic constitution and independence. Included the businessman and politicians.
Despite its practicalism and nationalism at home, Najuma often shoots foreign headlines for anti -Western anti -Western statements. At a UN conference in Geneva in 2000, when he claimed that AIDS was a man -made biological weapon, Najuma stunned the delegates. He occasionally fought verbally about homosexuality, called homosexuals “fools” and called homosexuality the “foreign and corrupt ideology”.
It once banned all foreign television programs, announcing that they had damaged Namibian youth.
Navjuma formed relations with North Korea, Cuba, Russia and China, some of which supported the Namibian independence movement by providing weapons and training.
But he balanced that with reaching the West, and was the first African leader to host the Najuma in the White House in 1993 by former US President Bill Clinton. Clinton called Nozoma “George Washington of his country” and “was a real hero. The world movement towards democracy.
“There is no shortage of capable and experienced African women to go ahead,” said Navjuma for the development of women in the region. Moisture Was elected her first female president last year And the president of the elected Netambo Nandi Naditwa is scheduled to begin next month.
Nejoma grew up in a rural, poor family, the largest of 11 children. His early life revolves around cattle care and land cultivation. He studied at a mission school and worked in a general store and then a wheeling station on the coast, a cleaner of the South African Railway before working in Windowk.
He was arrested in 1959 after a political protest and escaped from the area shortly after his release in Tanzania to go to exile. There, he helped the establishment of an organization of the South West African people and was nominated as its president in 1960. Swipo has been the ruling party of Namibia since 1990, and Najuma finally led it for 47 years until he retired in 2007.
When South Africa refused to focus on the UN resolution in 1966 to end the mandate in the German Colony in South West Africa after the First World War, Najuma launched Sopo’s guerrilla campaign.
“We started the armed struggle with just two all machine guns and two pistols.” “I acquired them from Algeria, as well as a period of ammunition.”
Swipo never won a military victory in the Independence War, which lasted for more than 20 years, but Navjuma gained extensive political support during his exile, which led to the United Nations to the sole representative of the nominee and South Africa. Finally announced his withdrawal from the country.
When he joined global leaders, Najuma was aware of his humble roots and lack of education. After working from school, he later studied at a night school, to a great extent to improve his English. He said that he had dedicated his life to the independence of his country.
“Others studied them when I guided the struggle,” he said.
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Mitsaka reported the US from Harare, Zimbabwe, and Cape Town in South Africa.
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