{"id":192660,"date":"2025-03-02T18:34:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T16:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-keynote-tribute-by-his-excellency-dr-nangolo-mbumba-president-of-the-republic-of-namibia-on-occasion-of-the-memorial-service-of-the-founding-father-of-the-namibian-nation-and-leader-"},"modified":"2025-03-02T18:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T16:34:34","slug":"namibia-keynote-tribute-by-his-excellency-dr-nangolo-mbumba-president-of-the-republic-of-namibia-on-occasion-of-the-memorial-service-of-the-founding-father-of-the-namibian-nation-and-leader-of-the-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-keynote-tribute-by-his-excellency-dr-nangolo-mbumba-president-of-the-republic-of-namibia-on-occasion-of-the-memorial-service-of-the-founding-father-of-the-namibian-nation-and-leader-of-the-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Keynote Tribute By His Excellency Dr Nangolo Mbumba, President of the Republic of Namibia On Occasion of the Memorial Service of the Founding Father of the Namibian Nation and Leader of the Namibian Revolution, His Excellency President Dr Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma.Independence Stadium, Windhoek, 28 February 2025."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>&#8220;A people united, striving to achieve a common good for all the members of the society will always emerge victorious&#8221; &#8211; Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">On 8 February 2025, the foundations of the republic of Namibia were shaken by the distressing news that his excellency Dr Sam Shafiishuna<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Nujoma, our founding president, founding father of the Namibian nation, and leader of the Namibian revolution had passed on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">The month of February is universally associated with love, purity and health. But for the second&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503020032.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>&#8220;A people united, striving to achieve a common good for all the members of the society will always emerge victorious&#8221; &#8211; Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma On 8 February 2025, the foundations of the republic of Namibia were shaken by the distressing news that his excellency Dr Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma, our founding president, founding father of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":192661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661558:c02da502d6af7fa918b6fc4c1559e4bd:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,16729,7903,5742,21933,19710,7079,23037,11358,4706,724,6953,20583,10970,257,50771,9206,2450,5935,14191,15667,5188,50770,254,9328,10225,1582],"class_list":["post-192660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-excellency","tag-father","tag-february","tag-founding","tag-keynote","tag-leader","tag-mbumba","tag-memorial","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian","tag-nangolo","tag-nation","tag-news","tag-nujoma-independence","tag-occasion","tag-president","tag-republic","tag-revolution","tag-sam","tag-service","tag-shafiishuna","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stadium","tag-tribute","tag-windhoek"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661558:c02da502d6af7fa918b6fc4c1559e4bd:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192660","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=192660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}