On behalf of the federal government and folks of South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa presents his deep condolences to the federal government and folks of the Republic of Namibia on the passing of Founding President His Excellency Dr Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma, aged 95.
President Ramaphosa extends his sympathies to Founding First Girl of the Republic of Namibia, Her Excellency Kovambo Nujoma, and the broader Nujoma and Kondombolo Household.
President Ramaphosa’s ideas are with Namibian President His Excellency Dr Nangolo Mbumba and the federal government of our north western neighbour who’re experiencing this loss 12 months following the passing of President Hage Geingob.
President Ramaphosa stated: “As neighbours and compatriots, South Africa is united in grief with Namibians who’ve misplaced the chief of the Namibian revolution, who’s inseparable from our personal historical past of battle and liberation.
“Dr Sam Nujoma was a rare freedom fighter who divided his revolutionary programme between Namibia’s personal battle towards South African colonialism and the liberation of South Africa from apartheid.
“In exile and on house soil, he led the Ovambo Individuals’s Organisation, the South West Africa Individuals’s Organisation and the Individuals’s Liberation Military of Namibia towards the seemingly unshakeable would possibly of colonial and apartheid authorities and forces.
“Sam Nujoma impressed the Namibian folks to pleasure and resistance that belied the scale of the inhabitants.
“Namibia’s attainment of independence from South Africa in 1990 ignited in us the inevitability of our personal liberation.
“President Nujoma’s management of a free Namibia laid the muse for the solidarity and partnership our two international locations share right now – a partnership we are going to proceed to deepen as neighbours and associates.
“We’re grateful for the prolonged lifetime with which Dr Sam Nujoma was blessed and we’re grateful for the style by which he devoted the various a long time of his life to serving his nation.
“Could his soul relaxation in peace and should our neighbours discover therapeutic in his legacy.”
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa.
