{"id":223198,"date":"2026-02-08T12:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nujoma-and-geingob-remembered-as-namibias-foundational-leaders\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:21:16","slug":"namibia-nujoma-and-geingob-remembered-as-namibias-foundational-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nujoma-and-geingob-remembered-as-namibias-foundational-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Nujoma and Geingob Remembered As Namibia&#8217;s Foundational Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Windhoek \u2014 <em>Several leaders have praised the late founding president Sam Nujoma and Namibia&#8217;s third president, Hage Geingob, for steering the country&#8217;s vision for the benefit of all Namibians.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking at a remembrance ceremony at Heroes&#8217; Acre in Windhoek on Saturday, president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah described the two as founding giants, with Nujoma as the founding president and Geingob as the founding prime minister.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;They had a strong belief in unity of purpose and laid a foundation for the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602070180.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>Windhoek \u2014 Several leaders have praised the late founding president Sam Nujoma and Namibia&#8217;s third president, Hage Geingob, for steering the country&#8217;s vision for the benefit of all Namibians. Speaking at a remembrance ceremony at Heroes&#8217; Acre in Windhoek on Saturday, president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah described the two as founding giants, with Nujoma as the founding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223199,"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\/00680707:0e74aeed4ccb66c0bdf443558ada2251:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,52250,7064,4381,4706,724,9052,257,16690,24377,254],"class_list":["post-223198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-foundational","tag-geingob","tag-leaders","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-nujoma","tag-remembered","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680707:0e74aeed4ccb66c0bdf443558ada2251:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223198","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=223198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}