HONOURING NAMIBIA’S FIERCEST ALLY

HONOURING NAMIBIA’S FIERCEST ALLY PHOTO: JEMIMA BEUKES

FINAL GOODBYE: Namibia bade farewell to one of the country’s fiercest and staunchest friends yesterday – Fidel Castro. In Parliament Gardens, mourners heard that Namibia has a lot to learn from former Cuban president Fidel Castro, a man of staunch principles and a revolutionary, according to President Hage Geingob at Castro’s memorial service. Castro died last week at the age of 90. Geingob said Namibians owed the Cuban people a lifetime of gratitude for Castro’s unwavering support during Namibia’s liberation struggle from apartheid South Africa. “Theirs was a great sacrifice - a sacrifice in blood. Therefore, we will, shall and must never stop thanking them. Like a well-bred or brought-up child will never stop thanking his or her parents, we shall never stop thanking the Cuban people,” Geingob said. The memorial service attended by founding president Sam Nujoma and the chairperson of the Namibia-Cuba Friendship Association, Andimba Toivo ya Toivo. Here Geingob is pictured with the Cuban ambassador to Namibia, Giraldo Mazola.