Flags at half-mast to honour HH STAFF REPORTER
President Hage Geingob has ordered national flags to be flown at half-mast in honour of struggle veteran Hidipo Hamutenya, who died last week in a Windhoek hospital after a long illness.
He was 77.
The order is with effect from today until Saturday.
HH, as he was affectionately known, has also been conferred the honour of national hero status.
He will be given a hero’s burial this Saturday at the Heroes’ Acre. A memorial service will be held at the Parliament Gardens tomorrow starting at 14:00.
Hamutenya, who was a former trade, information and foreign minister, was regarded by many in Swapo as a tactful, shrewd politician and diplomat.
After leaving the country for exile in the 1960s, Hamutenya studied in the USA together with Geingob and former National Assembly Speaker Theo-Ben Gurirab.
He later became Swapo’s secretary for education and was the deputy head of the UN Institute for Namibia in Lusaka in the late 1970s.
At the time of his death he had rejoined Swapo after having defected to form the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) in 2007. Hamutenya leaves behind his wife, Nangula, and five children.
President Hage Geingob has ordered national flags to be flown at half-mast in honour of struggle veteran Hidipo Hamutenya, who died last week in a Windhoek hospital after a long illness.
He was 77.
The order is with effect from today until Saturday.
HH, as he was affectionately known, has also been conferred the honour of national hero status.
He will be given a hero’s burial this Saturday at the Heroes’ Acre. A memorial service will be held at the Parliament Gardens tomorrow starting at 14:00.
Hamutenya, who was a former trade, information and foreign minister, was regarded by many in Swapo as a tactful, shrewd politician and diplomat.
After leaving the country for exile in the 1960s, Hamutenya studied in the USA together with Geingob and former National Assembly Speaker Theo-Ben Gurirab.
He later became Swapo’s secretary for education and was the deputy head of the UN Institute for Namibia in Lusaka in the late 1970s.
At the time of his death he had rejoined Swapo after having defected to form the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) in 2007. Hamutenya leaves behind his wife, Nangula, and five children.