War veteran relatives threaten to boycott Heroes Day commemoration

NAMPA

2025-08-24

KATIMA MULILO, 23 August 2025 - The 38-year-old Sarriety Kuyelayela, grandchild of the late Chatambula Dickson Masida who was in 1968 tortured and roasted alive at Masida village, about 75 kilometres west of Katima Mulilo in the Zambezi Region. Kuyelayela on Saturday told a team of Nampa journalists on how her grandfather was killed during the liberation struggle of Namibia. (Photo by: Mulisa Simiyasa) NAMPA

By Mulisa Simiyasa
KATIMA MULILO, 24 AUG (NAMPA) – Relatives of a war veteran who was tortured at Masida village near Katima Mulilo in the Zambezi Region in 1968, have threatened to boycott the Heroes Day commemorations set for Tuesday.
Dickson Chatambula Masida, a traditional leader of the Masida village at the time, was tortured and roasted alive in full view of his children and grandchildren.
According to his lastborn, 75-year-old Fredrick Mat...

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KATIMA MULILO, 23 August 2025 - Tombstone of the late Chatambula Dickson Masida and other war veterans listed on it who were in 1968 tortured and roasted alive at Masida village, about 75 kilometres west of Katima Mulilo in the Zambezi Region and the aim was for the liberation struggle for the independence of Namibia. (Photo by: Mulisa Simiyasa) NAMPA

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