{"id":191239,"date":"2025-02-12T17:58:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T15:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-cassinga-survivors-honour-nujoma\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T17:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T15:58:40","slug":"namibia-cassinga-survivors-honour-nujoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-cassinga-survivors-honour-nujoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Cassinga Survivors Honour Nujoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>Survivors of the attacks on the Cassinga and Vietnam camps in Angola said the late founding president Sam Nujoma has left a legacy that is difficult to match.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Cassinga and Vietnam Survivors Committee in a statement said Nujoma was played a pivotal role in Namibia&#8217;s liberation and independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;The passing of comrade Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma marks the end of an epoch &#8230; He will always be remembered in Namibia&#8217;s history as a great patriot, revolutionary, fearless freedom fighter and a unifying&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502120318.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survivors of the attacks on the Cassinga and Vietnam camps in Angola said the late founding president Sam Nujoma has left a legacy that is difficult to match. The Cassinga and Vietnam Survivors Committee in a statement said Nujoma was played a pivotal role in Namibia&#8217;s liberation and independence. &#8220;The passing of comrade Sam Shafiishuna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":191240,"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":[258,256,8631,10998,4706,724,257,16690,254,6040],"class_list":["post-191239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cassinga","tag-honour","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nujoma","tag-south-africa-today","tag-survivors"],"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\/191239","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=191239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}