{"id":223130,"date":"2026-02-08T00:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-president-nandi-ndaitwah-pays-tribute-to-founding-president-sam-nujoma-and-the-third-president-hage-geingob\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:20:17","slug":"namibia-president-nandi-ndaitwah-pays-tribute-to-founding-president-sam-nujoma-and-the-third-president-hage-geingob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-president-nandi-ndaitwah-pays-tribute-to-founding-president-sam-nujoma-and-the-third-president-hage-geingob\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: President Nandi-Ndaitwah Pays Tribute to Founding President Sam Nujoma and the Third President Hage Geingob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah delivered a keynote address at the candlelight remembrance ceremony held in honour of the late Dr Sam Nujoma, Founding President and Father of the Namibian Nation, and Dr Hage Geingob, Third President of the Republic of Namibia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">In her address, the President noted that February has become a month of deep national reflection. It is a time when the country remembers two distinguished leaders who, each in his own time, made immense contributions to Namibia\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602070181.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>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah delivered a keynote address at the candlelight remembrance ceremony held in honour of the late Dr Sam Nujoma, Founding President and Father of the Namibian Nation, and Dr Hage Geingob, Third President of the Republic of Namibia. In her address, the President noted that February has become a month of deep national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680706:13e0fb5d5fdce4590a52e0bb82e7b83e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,21933,7064,15303,4706,724,20099,257,16690,7223,2450,15667,254,10225],"class_list":["post-223130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-founding","tag-geingob","tag-hage","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nandindaitwah","tag-news","tag-nujoma","tag-pays","tag-president","tag-sam","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tribute"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680706:13e0fb5d5fdce4590a52e0bb82e7b83e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223130","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=223130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}