Fallece a los 95 años Sam Nujoma, expresidente y padre de la independencia de Namibia

Through a statement, signed by the current president, Nangolo Mbumbba, the executive reported that Nujoma, first chief of state elected democratically after the country was released from the South African domain, died at 23h45 local time in Windhoek, capital capital of that nation of southern Africa.

The text details that during the last three weeks Nujoma “was hospitalized to receive medical treatment and medical observation due to health problems. Unfortunately, this time, the bravest sonFrom our land he could not recover from his illness. “

Adds the text that «our founding father lived a long and consistent life during which he exceptionally served the people of his beloved country.”

From his long service sheet to the revolutionary cause, it was stressed that “heroically led the Namibian people during the darkest hours of our struggle for liberation until the achievement of freedom and independence on March 21, 1990.”

Nujoma presided over Namibia for three periods (1990-2005). He was a founder and first president of the popular organization of southwest Africa (Swapo), a core performance organization in the liberation of the country of South African racists.

In Independence, it promoted a policy of national reconciliation to leave behind the vestiges of decades of colonialism, racial discrimination and satanization of the swot and its guerrilla armed arm, the Namibia popular liberation army.

On the other hand, it contributed to consolidate democracy, popular participation and stability, as well as the empowerment of women.

According to the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, Nujoma led the Namibian independence process at a time when the South African apartheid regime was considered invincible and unwavering.

He added that Namibia’s independence confirmed to South African revolutionaries that apartheid’s release had an inevitable character.