Sam Nujoma, the freedom fighter who became Namibia's founding president after leading the country to independence from apartheid South Africa, has died.

Sam Nujoma, the activist and guerrilla leader who became Namibia's first democratically elected president after it won its independence from apartheid South Africa, died aged 95 on Saturday, the Namibian Presidency said on Sunday.

Born on May 12, 1929, at Etunda village, Omusati Region, in northwestern Namibia, Nujoma served as the country's first president from 1990 to 2005

Following the passing at the weekend of former Namibian president Sam Nujoma, Sunvil chair Noel Josephides recalls a chance encounter with Nujoma, which helped forge a new and enduring tourism link wi

Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its president for 15 years, has died. He was 95.

REVERED as ‘father of the nation’ and the icon of Namibia's liberation struggle, Sam Nujoma lived up to these expectations in more ways than one. His warm, broad smile and easy-going manner made him likeable and accessible.

Sam Nujoma, who has died aged 95, was the first president of Namibia and one of Africa’s renowned freedom fighters whose name was linked with men like Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa of Nigeria and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.

Sam Nujoma, who fought against apartheid and for Namibian independence and was known officially as the country’s “founding father”, has died in Windhoek aged 95. His death brings to an end the life of one of the last remaining liberation heroes in southern Africa after the death of others including South Africa’s Nelson Mandela and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe.

Nujoma has been called the country's founding father after leading the fight for independence from South Africa.