Nujoma, Namibia

African leaders gather for funeral of Namibia's 'founding father' Sam Nujoma
African leaders past and present gathered in Namibia on Saturday to bury the country's "founding father" Sam Nujoma, who challenged colonialism and a military occupation by South Africa's racist white minority government.
'End of era' for Africa as Namibia buries founding father
Namibia's founding father Sam Nujoma was "a giant ... "Therefore his departure signals an end of an era, a founding father of Africa," President Mbumba said in an earlier speech at a national ...
Sam Nujoma personified Namibia’s struggle for freedom
Like many African leaders of his era, he was shaped by the struggle for resistance against colonial oppression. This was no romantic picnic.
Namibian founding president Sam Nujoma is laid to rest and praised as the last African liberator
Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s founding president who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, was laid to rest in the country’s Heroes Acre cemetery on Saturday following a state funeral attended by African leaders and foreign dignitaries.
Namibia bids farewell to founding father Nujoma
WINDHOEK - Thousands of Namibians and dignitaries gathered Saturday to mourn the country's independence leader, Sam Nujoma, as nearly a month of homage climaxed with a state funeral.Nujoma, the guerrilla leader who won independence for the desert nation from apartheid South Africa,
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Sam Nujoma: Namibia's liberator, founding father
Namibia's first president Sam Nujoma ... Two weeks earlier, in an interview with state-owned New Era newspaper, he criticised as insufficient a one-billion-euro settlement offered by Germany ...
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Namibia: APP Remembers Progressive Nujoma
who are full of doubt and don't know our destinations after our death," Kumbwa said during a recent interview with New Era. He also commended the late Nujoma, regardless of his political ...
Namibian LGBTQ+ activist Friedel Dausab on colonial-era law victory: ‘I was waiting for 25 years to happen’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Dausab scored a major win by getting Namibia's colonial-era laws impacting gay men overturned last year. But, as the leader ...
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Namibia's liberation-era party : The next to fall?
Corruption scandals have tainted almost all of the liberation-era parties in the region that have also failed to deliver on promised land redistributions. As Namibian voters prepare to cast their ...
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Sam Nujoma, who led Namibia after independence struggle, dies at 95
who oversaw Namibia for 15 years after independence in 1990, was among the last surviving leaders from pro-independence movements in Africa that began in the 1950s. At the time, the new nations ...
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Namibia: Jobless Optimistic Amidst Despair
Namibia's unemployment rate has risen by 3.5 ... to 44.4% from 46.1% in the 2018 Labour Force Survey. Yesterday, New Era's crew took to the streets of Windhoek to hear from those who are hardest ...
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Namibia's new national minimum wage is a catalyst for economic growth and community upliftment
The introduction of a national minimum wage in Namibia is a landmark in the country ... managers and HR teams are well-informed about the new regulations. Smaller enterprises may also face ...