The revolutionary leader, Sam Najuma, who led Namibia for independence from the Ringeri South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, died at the age of 95.
According to Namibia’s presidency, as the “founding father” of Namibia, Najuma’s capital died on Saturday night after being admitted to a three -week hospital in Windowick.
“The foundations of the Namibia Republic have been shaken,” the President said in a Facebook post, announcing his death. It added that “national mourning” will be era.
And the revolutionary leader, that Dr. Sam Shafisuna Nejoma. @Drangolombomba President Navjuma passed on February 8 at 23h45 at the age of 95 at 23h45 in the Windowock in Namibia. Read the full statement: https://t.co/AW4VPZP4Y4
– Namibia presidency (@name Pradeshani) 9 February, 2025
After the long colonial rule of Germany and a bitter war of independence from South Africa, his country was honored as a charismatic father in his homeland as a charismatic father who attracted his country to democracy and stability.
He was the last of African leaders who led their countries to take out colonial or white minority rule, including Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Zimbia’s Kenneth Konda and Mozambique.
Navjuma led the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), which led to the struggle for independence from its inception in 1960.
While Swipo has been in power since independence, eventually in 2007, at the age of 78, in 2007, two years after standing with the presidency.
After the deep division of the liberation war and the division of regional governments on the ethnic basis of South Africa, many nominees have supported the leadership of Najuma for the process of national healing and reconciliation.
Even after the establishment of the Democratic Constitution and independence, his political opponents also praised the newcomer for adding white businessmen and politicians to the government, which was declared a Marxist. He was also known for anti -Western rhetoric and railing against homosexuality, which he called “foreign and corrupt ideology” and called AIDS disease “man -made biological weapons”.
Nadeomba Kamwana, a lecturer and political analyst at the University of Namibia, said, but when he succeeded in establishing and reconciliation with democratic institutions, his sovereign trends put a shadow on his inheritance.
“Although Najuma’s presidency was the basis of Namibia’s independence and governance, it was not without flaws,” Kamwania said.
Wake up in power
In 1929, in a small village in the northwestern Namibia, the Opho tribe was born with the poor farmers of the tribe, Najuma traced to raise his political consciousness in his teenage, when he moved to the port of Walwas Bay.
Upon reaching the age of 17, he lived with a khala in a black township and he avoided an adult conversation about the plight of black people under the principle of white.
According to an biography published in 2001, the largest of 10 children, while going to Night School in 1949, was the first job of Nijuma as a railway sweeper near Windowk. It was here that the hero was introduced to the tribal chief Hosiya Kotaku, who was lobbying. To end the colorful rule in Namibia, which is currently known as South West Africa.
Kotaku became his guardian, when he became politically active in the black workers of the window, he became politically mobilized, who was opposed to the official order to go to a new settlement in the late 1950s.
At the request of Kotaku, Najuma began his life in exile in 1960, leaving his wife and four children behind, first from Botswana. That same year, he was elected president of Sopo, later closed from the capital to the capital in search of assistance in 1966 and began a lower -level armed struggle in 1966.
Prior to the UN Security Council resolution in 1978, under pressure from Navjuma and others, there was more than a decade, which proposed a ceasefire and election. Another decade has passed since the ceasefire agreement and the elections in late 1989.
Sopo won a majority in these elections, and in March 1990, Najuma took power.
On retirement from the presidency, he enrolled in the geology for a master’s degree, believing that there was an undeniable mineral wealth in the mountains of Namibia.
The President said, “Najuma provided maximum leadership to our nation and made no attempt to encourage everyone to build a country that would be proud and proud of the nations of the world.”
