Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s founding president who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, has been laid to rest in the country’s Heroes Acre cemetery following a state funeral attended by African leaders and foreign dignitaries.

Thousands of Namibians gathered on the outskirts of the capital Windhoek on Saturday to bid farewell to the country’s founding president, Sam Nujoma, who died last month in a private hospital at the age of 95.

African leaders past and present gathered in Namibia on Saturday to bury the country's "founding father" Sam Nujoma, who challenged colonialism and a military occupation by South Africa's racist white minority government.

He was laid to rest at Heroes Acre on Saturday in a ceremony attended by his family and African leaders past and present.

Namibia’s President Nangolo Mbumba opened the tributes and called Nujoma “the most distinguished son of the soil”. He was a “giant” among leaders, he said of the man who headed the South West People’s Organisa­tion (SWAPO) that led the liberation struggle.

WINDHOEK: IN a solemn and deeply emotional ceremony, Namibia yesterday laid to rest its Founding President and

President Bola Tinubu has paid glowing tribute to the late founding president of the Republic of Namibia, Dr. Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma, describing him as a

MULTITUDES of people are making their way to Namibia’s National Heroes’ Acre for the burial of the country’s founding father, Dr Sam Nujoma. Dr Nujoma, who led Namibia from independence in 1990 until 2005,

Sam Nujoma, the founding father of Namibia, was laid to rest in the Heroes Acre cemetery.According to Associated Press, Namibia’s founding father who died on February 9, 2025, at the age of 95, was laid to rest on Saturday,