Namibia’s current president, Nangolo Mbumba, described Nujoma as a giant who stood firm in the country's 24-year armed struggle for independence from South Africa.

Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s founding president who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, has been laid to rest in the country’s Heroes Acre cemetery following a state funeral attended by African leaders and foreign dignitaries.

African leaders past and present gathered in Namibia on Saturday to bury the country's "founding father" Sam Nujoma, who challenged colonialism and a military occupation by South Africa's racist white minority government.

He was laid to rest at Heroes Acre on Saturday in a ceremony attended by his family and African leaders past and present.

Namibia’s President Nangolo Mbumba opened the tributes and called Nujoma “the most distinguished son of the soil”. He was a “giant” among leaders, he said of the man who headed the South West People’s Organisa­tion (SWAPO) that led the liberation struggle.

WINDHOEK: IN a solemn and deeply emotional ceremony, Namibia yesterday laid to rest its Founding President and

Vice President Kashim Shettima attended the funeral of Sam Nujoma, Namibia's first president and one of the country's founding fathers.

Bishop Kameeta Zephania, the former minister of poverty eradication and social welfare, made this statement during Nujoma’s funeral in Windhoek on Saturday.

MULTITUDES of people are making their way to Namibia’s National Heroes’ Acre for the burial of the country’s founding father, Dr Sam Nujoma. Dr Nujoma, who led Namibia from independence in 1990 until 2005,