Namibia’s current president, Nangolo Mbumba, described Nujoma as a giant who stood firm in the country's 24-year armed struggle for independence from South Africa.

Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s founding president who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, has been laid to rest in the country’s Heroes Acre cemetery following a state funeral attended by African leaders and foreign dignitaries.

JOHANNESBURG - Namibia's former president, Sam Nujoma, will be laid to rest on Saturday in Heroes' Acre in the capital, Windhoek. The founding father of liberated Namibia died in February in hospital at the age of 95. President Nangolo Mbumba declared Saturday a public holiday in honour of the nation's hero.

Deputy President Kithure Kindki is set to jet out to Windhoek for the burial of Namibia's founding President Sam Nujoma, who died on February 8 at the age of 95.

THE body of the late Namibian President and founding father, Dr Sam Nujoma, arrived in Windhoek on Thursday afternoon for the final leg of the Regional Processions ahead of the liberation icon’s burial on Saturday.

African leaders past and present gathered in Namibia on Saturday to bury the country's "founding father" Sam Nujoma, who challenged colonialism and a military occupation by South Africa's racist white minority government.