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President Nangolo Mbumba delivered a tribute to Heikky Shililifa at a memorial service in the Omusati region on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n He praised Shililifa as a teacher, mentor and freedom fighter who contributed significantly to Namibia’s independence and the education sector.<\/p>\n “Shililifa was not only a teacher but also a courageous and exemplary member of the liberation struggle,” Mbumba said.<\/p>\n He noted that Shililifa volunteered to assist combatants and provided basic necessities to the People’s Liberation Army…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> President Nangolo Mbumba delivered a tribute to Heikky Shililifa at a memorial service in the Omusati region on Sunday. He praised Shililifa as a teacher, mentor and freedom fighter who contributed significantly to Namibia’s independence and the education sector. “Shililifa was not only a teacher but also a courageous and exemplary member of the liberation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":187601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,50301,23037,4706,724,257,7223,2450,50302,254,10225],"class_list":["post-187600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-heikky","tag-mbumba","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pays","tag-president","tag-shililifa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tribute"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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