The founder of an independent Namibia, Sam Navjuma, who led a Soviet -backed guerrilla army, won a victory against the high -ranking South African’s high -ranking powers, which fought the Cold War. The dynamics are very debt. The week was 95 years old.
According to the current president of the country, Nangolo Mumbomba, Mr Najuma died in the Namibia capital, Windowk. Declared death His statement on Sunday did not cause any death, but it was said that the former president had suffered a disease for three weeks.
Depending on his audience, a bearded, given to a business suit to business for his tired fatigue, Mr Najuma pursued diplomacy and insurgency twin tracks in a long struggle for his country’s independence for decades. -A wide -ranging former German colony of Pretoria ruled the UN violation.
When independence finally came in March 1990, it was a product of the United States Breakaver Agreement to secure South Africa’s withdrawal in exchange for a bridge out by 50,000 Cuba troops from neighboring Angola, which for Mr. Nozoma. Provided an important back base. Gores.
Mr. Najuma and his southwestern African organization, known as Sopo, was formed in 1960 after escaping from Namibia in exile, did not take any direct part in the negotiations that cause The contract led to. And although Mr Navjuma adopted a name de Gori – Shafifishona, or electricity – but there was no record of his direct participation in the fighting.
For years, South Africa’s white rulers insisted that Namibia, which he called southwestern Africa, is the ultimate buffer against the advance of the communist influence in Africa. Thus, when the Soviet Union ended, the repeated claim of Pretoria’s repeated claims of Western supporters against Moscow’s encroachments failed.
When approaching independence, Mr. Najuma’s party had left a campaign for a party state, and had agreed on multilateral elections and a democratic constitution that seems to be his longtime. The insistence reinforces that he was nationalist rather than ideology.
However, many analysts found a sovereign line. He was re -elected for the second term in 1994, overseeing a constitutional change, which allowed him to contest the third term in the 1999 elections, ignoring the period before the period.
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Erin Mendel Reporting was contributed.
