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Namibian war veteran Office Chisozu, who was accorded a military funeral by president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, was on Saturday laid to rest at the Kamenga Shrine in the Kongola constituency of the Zambezi region.<\/em><\/p>\n Honoured with an honorary rank of lieutenant colonel after his retirement for his contribution to the liberation struggle, Chisozu becomes the first liberation struggle icon to be buried at Kamenga Shrine.<\/p>\n He died aged 90 on 20 October at Katima Mulilo District Hospital.<\/p>\n \n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Namibian war veteran Office Chisozu, who was accorded a military funeral by president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, was on Saturday laid to rest at the Kamenga Shrine in the Kongola constituency of the Zambezi region. Honoured with an honorary rank of lieutenant colonel after his retirement for his contribution to the liberation struggle, Chisozu becomes the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":213167,"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":[258,256,52843,13661,52844,8416,4706,724,257,8417,30384,254],"class_list":["post-213166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chisozu","tag-colonel","tag-kamenga","tag-laid","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rest","tag-shrine","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\/213166","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=213166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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