Nujoma gave us tasks to fulfil: Angula

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2025-02-10

WINDHOEK, 09 February 2025 - Namibia's first Minister of Education, Nahas Angula. (Photo by: Eba Kandovazu) NAMPA

By Andreas Thomas
WINDHOEK, 10 FEB (NAMPA) - Former cabinet minister and liberation struggle veteran, Nahas Angula, said that founding president Sam Nujoma was a father figure to Namibians who were in exile during the war of liberation.
He said that Nujoma, who died on Saturday at the age of 95, mentored them during the liberation struggle by assigning them duties that continued even after independence.
“We gathered around him. We didn’t know him...

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