Otjiwarongo-based former Robben Island political prisoner dies

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2025-07-16

OTJIWARONGO, 10 June 2017 - The 75-year-old former Robben Island prisoner Lazarus Guiteb. (Photo by: Mulisa Simiyasa) NAMPA

OTJIWARONGO, 16 JUL (NAMPA) – Otjiwarongo-based former Robben Island political prisoner, Lazarus Guiteb, has died.

His nephew, Sebetius Guiteb, told Nampa in an interview on Wednesday that the 82-year-old Guiteb died in a private hospital in Windhoek on Tuesday morning, where he had been hospitalised for the past two weeks.

Lazarus Guiteb was a recognised war veteran who spent eight years in South Africa’s Robben Island prison alongside the lat...

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OTJIWARONGO, 12 August 2019 – The 77-year-old Lazarus Guiteb talks about the commemoration of Heroes’ Day planned for Otjiwarongo in the Otjozondjupa Region on 26 August this year. (Photo by: Mulisa Simiyasa) NAMPA

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