{"id":223305,"date":"2026-02-09T12:23:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-geingob-blossoms-even-in-death\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:23:18","slug":"namibia-geingob-blossoms-even-in-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-geingob-blossoms-even-in-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Geingob Blossoms Even In Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This week marked exactly two years since the demise of former president Hage Geingob, a towering African political figure, a first among equals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"95\">As February approached, the memory of the 4 February 2024 returned with a heaviness that words still struggle to carry: \u2018The sitting President is no more\u2019. This week, Namibia paused to remember that fateful day in 2024 when the nation lost one of its own \u2013 not merely a sitting President, but a freedom fighter, a giant of democracy, a diplomat, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602070178.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>This week marked exactly two years since the demise of former president Hage Geingob, a towering African political figure, a first among equals. As February approached, the memory of the 4 February 2024 returned with a heaviness that words still struggle to carry: \u2018The sitting President is no more\u2019. This week, Namibia paused to remember [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":223306,"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\/00581040:6b66866885774080d1145588e28e8b88:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,53609,6974,7064,4706,724,257,254],"class_list":["post-223305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blossoms","tag-death","tag-geingob","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00581040:6b66866885774080d1145588e28e8b88:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223305","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=223305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}