Sam Nujoma, fiery freedom fighter, who led Namibia for freedom from South Africa in 1990 and served as the first President of the nation for 15 years, and known as the father of the nation, died. . Hey 95.
Nuzoma’s death was announced on Sunday by the current Namibian President Nangolo Mbumba. Mbumba said Nujoma died on Saturday night after he was hospitalized in the capital Windhok.
“The foundation of the Republic of Namibia is shaken,” Mbumba said in a statement. “In the last three weeks, the founder president of the Republic of Namibia and the father of Namibian nation was admitted to the hospital for medical treatment and medical observation due to sick health.”
“Unknowingly, this time, the most brave son of our land could not recover from his illness,” said Mbumba.
Nuzoma was reversed as a charismatic father in his motherland, which was carried forward by Germany for democracy and stability after long colonial rule and as a bitter warbite of freedom from South Africa. He spent almost 30 years as the leader of his independence movement before he was elected the first Democratic leader of his country in 1990.
Nuzoma, with his trademark white beard, a last generation of African leaders who brought their countries out of colonial or white minority rule, including Nelson Mandela in South Africa, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Kenneth Kaond of Zambabia and Samora of Mozambic Was involved.
Many Namibians’ freedom war and the policies of South Africa to divide the country into ethnic government governments, due to the policies of national treatment and reconciliation with separate education and health for each caste Credit for Nuzoma’s leadership for.
Even his political opponents praised Nuzoma – a Marxist who was branded and accused of suppression of dissatisfaction in exile – for a democratic constitution and after independence to white businesses and politicians in the government to contain.
Despite his practicality and nation-building at home, Nuzoma often made foreign headlines for his fierce-western rhetoric. He claimed that AIDS was a man-made biological weapon and therefore sometimes a verbally an orally on homosexuality, “stupid” to homosexuals and branding homosexuality “foreign and corrupt ideology”.
Nuzoma formed relations with North Korea, Cuba, Russia and China, some of which supported Namibia’s liberation movement by providing weapons and training.
But he said that with outreach in the West, and Nuzoma was the first African leader to host the 1993 at the White House by former US President Bill Clinton. The movement of the world towards democracy. ,
Nujoma became the largest of 11 children, in a rural, poor family. His early life roamed to take care of his parents’ cattle and land cultivation. He attended a mission school before going to Windhok and working for South African Railway.
What did he arrested after a political opposition in 1959 and ran away from the area immediately after his release. In exile, he helped establish an organization of South West African people and was named its chairman in 1960. Swapo Namibia’s ruling party has been 1990.
When South Africa refused to focus on the 1966 United Nations resolution to end its mandate on the East German Colony of South West Africa, Nujoma launched Swapo’s guerrilla campaign.
“We began armed conflict with only two sub-masine guns and two pistols,” Nujoma once said. “I met him from Algeria, as well as a few rounds of bloom.”
