Sam Nogoma from Namibia dead in 95

His father, Daniel Awoni Nogoma, and his mother, Minbingana Hilfi Condopolo, worked on the ground. As a boy, Mr. Nogoma said in his memoirs, he used to tend to live cattle and goats, carrying a child on his back to free his mother to work in the fields.

Thanks to only modest official education, Mr. Nujoma moved at the age of 17 to the Walvis Coastal Bay pocket, where he was working in a public store and whale fishing station before moving to Windhoek as cleaner on the railway system. Hours later, he studied English in a night school. In 1956, he married Theopoldine Kovambo Katjimne. They had three children, and a daughter who died in 18 months. Mr. Nujoma wrote in exile by that time and was unable to attend her funeral, because the police would have been haring him.

In the late fifties of the last century, when Ghana’s independence from Britain in 1957 became a slogan for the liberation of many Africans, Mr. Nogoma was linked to the organizations that were a Swapo pioneer, especially the Ovamboland People. He left for exile in 1960 about his role in protests against the forced removal of the black people from a separate town to another. In 1966, his organization launched its first initial military operations for its armed struggle. Over the years, thousands of young Namibi joined the rebels.

South Africa has sought to reduce its war with SWAPO as a low -density conflict, but this earns its growing commitment to the military forces. “Despite the great efforts made by South Africa for 20 years,” Bernard E. Treenor, the military correspondent of the New York Times, in July 1988, “The power of the Namibi rebels, which is now estimated at 8000, looks incomplete.”

Swapo’s military traditions continued after independence when the Namibia army was deployed to support the Congolese President, Laurent Capella, in 1998 and to put out a separatist revolution in the northeastern Caprivian sector in 1999.