{"id":213891,"date":"2025-11-17T09:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-unisa-honours-nujoma-for-contribution-to-liberation-struggle\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T07:06:32","slug":"namibia-unisa-honours-nujoma-for-contribution-to-liberation-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-unisa-honours-nujoma-for-contribution-to-liberation-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Unisa Honours Nujoma for Contribution to Liberation Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>The University of South Africa on Friday presented a posthumous award to Namibia&#8217;s founding president, Sam Nujoma, for his contribution to the liberation struggle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Nujoma&#8217;s son, Utoni Nujoma, received the award at the 2025 Chancellor&#8217;s Calabash Awards in Johannesburg on behalf of the nation and the Nujoma family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;It is with immense gratitude that I receive this honour for my late father. This award is dedicated to the Namibian people whom he served during the liberation struggle and after&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511170115.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>The University of South Africa on Friday presented a posthumous award to Namibia&#8217;s founding president, Sam Nujoma, for his contribution to the liberation struggle. Nujoma&#8217;s son, Utoni Nujoma, received the award at the 2025 Chancellor&#8217;s Calabash Awards in Johannesburg on behalf of the nation and the Nujoma family. &#8220;It is with immense gratitude that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":213892,"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":[258,256,12520,9437,8332,4706,724,257,16690,254,11137,39148],"class_list":["post-213891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-contribution","tag-honours","tag-liberation","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-nujoma","tag-south-africa-today","tag-struggle","tag-unisa"],"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\/213891","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=213891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}