Nehale, Niilenge to be buried at Heroes’ Acre

NAMPA

2026-08-21

WINDHOEK, 21 August 2026 – President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah with Chief of the Namibian Defence Force Air Marshal Martin Pinehas during the repatriation of former liberation heroes from South Africa at Hosea Kutako International Airport (Photo: Andreas Thomas) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 21 AUG (NAMPA) – The remains of liberation struggle heroes Festus Nehale and Simon Petrus Niilenge will be buried at Heroes’ Acre on Monday, following the repatriation of their mortal remains from South Africa on Friday.
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah received the remains of the two former Robben Island political prisoners at Hosea Kutako International Airport, together with 84 ancestral human remains that had been kept at Iziko Museu...

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WINDHOEK, 21 August 2026 – Members of the Namibia Defence Forces offloading one of the two caskets that contain the mortal remains of liberation struggle heroes Festus Nehale and Simon Petrus Niilenge at Hosea Kutako International Airport (Photo: Andreas Thomas) NAMPA

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