{"id":206476,"date":"2025-09-07T18:13:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nujomas-bodyguard-prays-for-hawalas-place-in-heaven\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:13:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:13:27","slug":"namibia-nujomas-bodyguard-prays-for-hawalas-place-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nujomas-bodyguard-prays-for-hawalas-place-in-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Nujoma&#8217;s Bodyguard Prays for Hawala&#8217;s Place in Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em>Former president Sam Nujoma&#8217;s bodyguard, Nepando Amupanda, says since he heard about former Namibian Defence Force (NDF) chief Salomon &#8216;Jesus&#8217; Hawala&#8217;s death, he has been praying to God to admit him into heaven.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;The works he did were right and just. I am sure he has been admitted to heaven,&#8221; Amupanda said during a memorial service for Hawala at Ohakweenyanga village in Oshana region yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Hawala died on 11 August, just eight days before his 90th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509040564.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>Former president Sam Nujoma&#8217;s bodyguard, Nepando Amupanda, says since he heard about former Namibian Defence Force (NDF) chief Salomon &#8216;Jesus&#8217; Hawala&#8217;s death, he has been praying to God to admit him into heaven. &#8220;The works he did were right and just. I am sure he has been admitted to heaven,&#8221; Amupanda said during a memorial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,22204,52284,31574,4706,724,257,9928,8673,15298,254],"class_list":["post-206476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bodyguard","tag-hawalas","tag-heaven","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nujomas","tag-place","tag-prays","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/206476","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=206476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}