{"id":192638,"date":"2025-03-02T06:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T04:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ndilimani-bids-farewell-to-revolutionary-leader-nujoma\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T06:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T04:33:20","slug":"namibia-ndilimani-bids-farewell-to-revolutionary-leader-nujoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ndilimani-bids-farewell-to-revolutionary-leader-nujoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Ndilimani Bids Farewell to Revolutionary Leader Nujoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>Ndilimani Cultural Troupe, Swapo&#8217;s revolutionary band, pays tribute to founding president Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma &#8211; the person who revolutionised their music.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Speaking on behalf of the band, Ndilimani manager Jessy Nombanza says: &#8220;Although his age was at an advanced stage, comrade Nujoma&#8217;s passing left band members devastated, especially those of us who have been with the band for quite a long time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">&#8220;Tears can easily pour down our cheeks as we go down memory lane. I can still hear his voice as he&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502280238.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>Ndilimani Cultural Troupe, Swapo&#8217;s revolutionary band, pays tribute to founding president Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma &#8211; the person who revolutionised their music. Speaking on behalf of the band, Ndilimani manager Jessy Nombanza says: &#8220;Although his age was at an advanced stage, comrade Nujoma&#8217;s passing left band members devastated, especially those of us who have been with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":192639,"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":[258,256,8632,8633,7079,4706,724,50766,257,16690,10894,254],"class_list":["post-192638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bids","tag-farewell","tag-leader","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-ndilimani","tag-news","tag-nujoma","tag-revolutionary","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/192638","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=192638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}