Namibia’s founding president, Sam Nujoma, who steered the nation to freedom from apartheid South Africa, was laid to relaxation within the nation’s Heroes Acre cemetery on Saturday.
It was attended by his widow, youngsters, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren and African leaders previous and current.
They described Nujoma as an African icon, and a person of rules who defended the African continent towards colonial methods.
“On these hallowed grounds the final resting place of Namibia’s heroes and heroines to lay to rest. A most distinguished son of the soil. A giant among leaders and a revolutionary icon,” mentioned incumbent president Nangolo Mbumba.
Mourners from all corners of the nation gathered from early within the morning at Heroes Acre within the capital, Windhoek, to pay their respects to Nujoma who died two weeks in the past on the age of 95.
Described because the “founding father” of Namibia, he rose from herding cattle as a boy to main the county’s independence battle towards apartheid South Africa.
He was seen because the final of a era of leaders who headed anti-colonial actions and fought for freedom throughout the continent.
“He’s an epitome of the struggle for the liberation of an African person. The African person in this context, Namibia, he is one of the few who stood up in the 50s to fight against apartheid, racial discrimination,” mentioned Pendukeni Ithana, vice-chairperson of the Sam Nujoma Foundation.
Nujoma who served three phrases as president from 1990 to 2005 was broadly credited with bringing peace and stability to Namibia.
Namibia had noticed a 21-day mourning interval, with flags at half-staff. Nujoma’s physique was honoured with a nationwide farewell as his stays had been flown to seven areas together with his village homestead of Etunda, in Okahao.
As his casket, draped within the Namibian flag, was lowered, there was a 21-gun salute and a flypast by the Namibian Air Force.
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