President Paul Kagame has extended condolences to former First Lady Monica Geingos and Namibia for the passing of President Hage Geingob.
He died in the wee hours of Sunday, February 4, at Lady Pohamba Hospital in the country’s capital, Windhoek, where he was receiving cancer treatment.
Kagame eulogised the fallen 82-year-old politician as a champion of Pan-Africanism whose work would be remembered for generations to come.
Geingob had led the thinly populated and mostly arid southern African country since 2015, the year he announced he had survived prostate cancer.
“My deepest condolences to my sister Monica Geingos, the entire family and the people of Namibia for the passing of my brother and friend President Hage Geingob,” Kagame said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
“His leadership through Namibia’s liberation struggle, his tireless work in service of his people and his commitment to a united Africa will all be remembered for generations to come.”
Born in 1941, Geingob was a prominent politician before Namibia achieved independence from white minority-ruled South Africa in 1990.
He chaired the body that drafted Namibia’s constitution, then became its first prime minister at independence on March 21 of that year, a position he retained until 2002.
In 2007, Geingob became vice president of the governing South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo), which he had joined as an agitator for independence when Namibia was still known as South West Africa.
SOURCE: TNT
