Good Morning my NamTwitter Family, thank you very much for your kind congratulatory messages, prayers and encouragement.
😃Yes I will still be amongst you and as always learn from you. Let’s work together in the interest of our country and people.
I spoke on WhatsApp with the now Prime Minister of Namibia, Dr. Elijah Ngurare. During our time in student politics, we always turned to him & Prof. Amupanda for guidance & created lasting friendships. The heavens opened today. Congratulations Prime Minister of Namibia @ngurare !
As neighbours and compatriots, South Africa is united in grief with Namibians who have lost the leader of the Namibian revolution, who is inseparable from our own history of struggle and liberation.
Dr Sam Nujoma was an extraordinary freedom fighter who divided his revolutionary programme between Namibia’s own struggle against South African colonialism and the liberation of South Africa from apartheid.
In exile and on home soil, he led the Ovambo People’s Organisation, the South West Africa People’s Organisation and the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia against the seemingly unshakeable might of colonial and apartheid authorities and forces.
Sam Nujoma inspired the Namibian people to pride and resistance that belied the size of the population.
Namibia’s attainment of independence from South Africa in 1990 ignited in us the inevitability of our own liberation.
President Nujoma’s leadership of a free Namibia laid the foundation for the solidarity and partnership our two countries share today – a partnership we will continue to deepen as neighbours and friends.
We are grateful for the extended lifetime with which Dr Sam Nujoma was blessed and we are grateful for the manner in which he dedicated the many decades of his life to serving his nation.
May his soul rest in peace and may our neighbours find healing in his legacy.
We cannot be mere consumers of good governance, we must be participants, we must be co-creators. Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. The government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective.