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Tributes for late Namibia president, 1st woman head of state on the cards

Tributes for late Namibia president, 1st woman head of state on the cards

TRIBUTES have poured in for Hein Geingob, the Namibian president who lost his battle against cancer on Sunday. South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa paid a warm tribute to Geingob both as freedom fighter and head of state. Ramaphosa said: "Today, South Africa joins the people of our sister state Namibia in mourning the passing of a leader, patriot and friend of South Africa. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Geingob family and the people of Namibia who have lost an outstanding leader in a year in which Namibia, like South Africa, is due to hold elections. “I am deeply…
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Namibia’s President Hage Geingob, 82, dies after cancer diagnosis

Namibia’s President Hage Geingob, 82, dies after cancer diagnosis

NAMIBIA'S President Hage Geingob, 82, died in hospital early, the presidency said, weeks after he was diagnosed with cancer. Geingob had been in charge of the thinly populated and mostly arid southern African country since 2015, the year he announced he had survived prostate cancer. Vice President Nangolo Mbumba takes the helm in Namibia - a mining hotspot with significant deposits of diamonds and the electric car battery ingredient lithium - until presidential and parliamentary elections at the end of the year. A presidency post on social media platform X did not give a cause of death, but late last month the…
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‘Germany’s genocide reparations not enough’

‘Germany’s genocide reparations not enough’

GERMANY’S offer to fund projects in Namibia worth more than a billion euros ($1.22 billion) over 30 years to atone for its role in genocide and property seizures in its-then colony more than a century ago is not enough, according to Namibian Vice President Nangolo Mbumba. "No amount of money in any currency can truly compensate the life of a human being," Mbumba told journalists as Windhoek officially briefed the nation on the outcome of six years of negotiations with Germany which concluded last month. "We need to recognise that the amount of 1.1 billion euros agreed upon between the…
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