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Namibia

Sam Nujoma (Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma)

Date of Birth: 12 May 1929
Place of Birth: Ongandjera, Namibia


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Boutef, the Life President

Following in the footsteps of Namibia’s President Sam Nujoma and Cameroon’s President Paul Biya President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has joined the roster of African presidents who have persuaded their parliaments to end or extend the constitutional limits on the number of terms a president may serve...


Swapping Stakes

This is Ancash Investments an empowerment company in which Zackey Nujoma a son of Namibia's influential founding President Sam Nujoma was involved...


Nujoma's grasp

The radicals in SWAPO's 83-member Central Committee and in the party's Youth League (SYL) the 'ultras' fervently support ex-President Sam Nujoma...


The sick man of the south

Blank cheques and flattery If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery Mugabe's greatest regional admirer was Namibia's former President Sam Nujoma who inculcated many of Mugabe's core precepts: the urgent need for land distribution the obsessional homophobia and the rights of liberation leaders to enjoy political longevity...


Political hurdles ahead

Ex-President Sam Nujoma has formally retired from front-line politics but his Omusati group of northerners still dominates the party and his eldest son Deputy Justice Minister Uutoni Nujoma came second in the vote for SWAPO’s new Central Committee...


Chalo Africa

Similarly in neighbouring Namibia Ramesh's discussions with various leaders including ex-President Sam Nujoma focused on directly procuring gems and precious stones but with no agreement as yet...


Breaking up the party

In November four years of factional fighting within the governing South West African People's Organisation culminated in a breakaway by senior party members marginalised and vilified by the former head of state and outgoing SWAPO President Sam Nujoma (AC Vol 48 No 22)...


Sam bows out again

President Sam Nujoma at 78 is at last moving into a back seat...


Sam the lifer

Namibia’s founding President Sam Nujoma will almost certainly be elected to the new post of national chairman (probably for life) of the governing South West African People's Organisation at its congress on 27-30 November...


Sam and son of Sam

The congress had originally been expected in midyear; the official reason for the delay - to give the party machinery time to prepare - masks the bitter rivalry between the dominant faction which favours ex-President Sam Nujoma and supporters of the former Foreign Affairs Minister Hidipo Hamutenya...


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