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Namibia's First President Sam Nujoma Dies at 95
Namibia's First President Sam Nujoma Dies at 95
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Samuel Nujoma (born in 1929) is a Namibian freedom fighter, anti-apartheid activist, and politician who served as the first president of Namibia from 1990 to... 09.02.2025, Sputnik Africa
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Namibia's founding father and first president, Sam Nujoma, a hero of independence, passed away on Saturday after spending three weeks in hospital. He was battling an illness from which he could not recover, President Nangolo Mbumba said in a statement.Some highlights of his life:Sam Nujoma was one of the founders of the South West African People's Organization in 1960, a national liberation movement that led the country to independence from white-minority-run South Africa in 1990.
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Namibia's First President Sam Nujoma Dies at 95
12:59 09.02.2025 (Updated: 14:09 10.02.2025) Ekaterina Shilova
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Samuel Nujoma (born in 1929) is a Namibian freedom fighter, anti-apartheid activist, and politician who served as the first president of Namibia from 1990 to 2005.
Namibia's founding father and first president, Sam Nujoma, a hero of independence, passed away on Saturday after spending three weeks in hospital. He was
battling an illness from which he could not recover, President Nangolo Mbumba said in a statement.
Some highlights of his life:
Born on May 12, 1929, into a farming family, Sam Nujoma was the eldest of ten children;
After becoming a railroad sweeper near the capital Windhoek, he attended evening classes, where he met independence activists;
He was the head of
SWAPO, a liberation movement that he co-founded in 1960; he launched an armed struggle in 1966;
Nujoma achieved Namibia's independence from South Africa in 1990, which had taken over control of the territory from Germany following the First World War; he governed the country until the end of his third term in 2005;
Nujoma called Germany's 2021 offer of compensation of more than €1 billion for the massacre of tens of thousands of indigenous Herero and Nama people, considered the first genocide of the 20th century, insufficient.
Sam Nujoma was one of the founders of the South West African People's Organization in 1960, a national liberation movement that led the country to independence from white-minority-run
South Africa in 1990.
