Hage Gottfried Geingob, Namibia’s third president since the demise of apartheid in 1990, died on February 4 in the Namibian capital of Windhoek where he was receiving cancer treatment.
He was born on August 3, 1941 in the small town of Otjiwarongo, in northern Namibia, inhabited by the ethnic minority group of the Damara people. His birth coincided with the era when Namibia was an administered territory under the UN’s predecessor, the League of Nations, and just seven years before the effective colonisation of Namibia by South Africa’s apartheid
