Sam Nogoma, the revolutionary leader who led Namibia to independence from the apartheid in South Africa in 1990 and died as its president 15 years ago, in 95 years.

Nujoma died in Namibia, “the founding father”, and he passed away on Saturday night after entering the hospital for three weeks in the capital, Winduk, according to Namibi.

“The foundations of the Republic of Namibia have been shaken,” the presidency said in a Facebook post announced by his death. He added that there is a period of “national mourning”.

The revolutionary leader is Dr. Sam Shafishona Nogoma. ” Ddnajani President Nujoma passed at the age of 95 on February 8th in 23h45 at Windhoek, Namibia. Read the full statement: https://t.co/aw4vPzp4y4

– Nampresiedance February 9, 2025

Nujoma has been recorded in his homeland as a charismatic rosary that directed his country to democracy and stability after a long time The colonial rule from Germany And the bitter independence war for South Africa.

It was the last generation of African leaders who led their countries from the colonial or white base that included Nelson Mandela in South Africa, Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe, Kenneth Conda in Zambia, and Samura Mashael from Mozambique.

Nujoma heads the Swapo People’s Organization (SWAPO), which led the liberation conflict since its inception in 1960.

While Swapo has been in power since independence, Nujoma finally resigned in 2007 at the age of 78, after two years of standing from the presidency.

Many Namibis have attributed the leadership of Nujoma to the healing process and national reconciliation after the deep divisions caused by the war of independence and South African policies to divide the country into racially regional governments.

Even his political opponents praised the weight – which he described as Marxist – to create a democratic constitution and involve white businessmen and politicians in the government after independence. He was also known for his intense anti -Western and handrails against homosexuality, which he described as “foreign ideology and corrupt” and AIDS “” a human biological weapon.

Nadumba Kamwania, a lecturer at the University of Namibia and a political analyst, said that while he succeeded in establishing democratic institutions and moving forward in reconciliation, his authoritarian tendencies cast a shadow on his legacy.

Kamuania said: “While the presidency of Nogoma was an institution in establishing the independence and rule of Namibia, it was not without faults.”

“The maximum leadership”

He was born to poor farmers from the Ovambo tribe in a small village in northwestern Namibia in 1929, Nujoma followed his political consciousness for adolescence when he moved to Walvis Bay.

His arrival to 17 years, he lived with aunt in a black town and was familiar with adult talks around the ordeal of blacks under the rule of whites.

The first between 10 children was the first job in Nogoma was a railway sweetener near Winddok in 1949 while he was going to the night school, according to a CV published in 2001.

Kotaku became his teacher, as he sponsored the young stone because he became a political active among black workers in Windhoc, who were resisting a government order to move to a new town in the late 1950s.

At the request of Kutako, Nujoma began life in exile in 1960, first to Botswana, leaving his wife and four children. In the same year, he was elected president of Swapo, where he was later transferred from capital to the capital in searching for support and launching a low -level armed conflict in 1966.

It took more than a decade of pressure from Nujoma and others before the United Nations Security Council resolution in 1978, a ceasefire and elections proposal. Another decade passed to sign the ceasefire and elections that took place in late 1989.

Swapo won a majority in those elections, and Nujoma took office in March 1990.

Upon retirement from the presidency, he joined a master’s degree in geology, believing that the Namibia Mountains contain an unexploited metal wealth.

The presidency said: “Nujoma provided the maximum leadership of our nation and spared no effort to motivate all Namibi to build a country that would stand long and proud among the countries of the world.”