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Nujoma was succeeded as President of Namibia by Hifikepunye Pohamba in 2005.
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Sam Nujoma was sworn in as the first President of Namibia watched by Nelson Mandela ( who had been released from prison shortly beforehand ) and representatives from 147 countries, including 20 heads of state.
Sam Nujoma was reelected as president in 1999, winning the election, that had a 62. 1 % turnout with 76. 82 %.
Nujoma had the constitution changed so he could run for a third term in 1999, but in 2004 he was replaced as the SWAPO presidential candidate by Hifikepunye Pohamba, who was described as Nujoma's hand-picked successor.
Samuel Daniel Shafiishuna Nujoma ( born 12 May 1929 ) is a Namibian politician who was the first President of Namibia from 1990 to 2005.
Nujoma was born as first of eleven children of Daniel Uutoni Nujoma and Helvi Mpingana Kondombolo in the north of the country, at Etunda village in Ongandjera the Omusati region of South West Africa now Namibia, which is part of the cultural area known as Ovamboland.
During the struggle, Nujoma took the combat name " Shafiishuna ", meaning " lightning ", as the name was in his family on his father's side.
As head of SWAPO, Nujoma was unanimously declared president upon the victory of SWAPO in a United Nations-supervised election in 1989, and was sworn in by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar on 21 March 1990.
Nujoma was re-elected as President of Namibia in December 1994 with 76. 3 % of the vote.
The constitution of Namibia was changed to allow Nujoma to run for a third five-year term in 1999 ; this was justified on the grounds that he had not been directly elected for his first term, and the change applied only to Nujoma.
The constitution did not allow Nujoma to run in November 2004 for a fourth term, and there was not much enthusiasm even within SWAPO to change it again.
Nujoma said that he was " passing the torch and mantle of leadership to comrade Pohamba ".
Choosing to leave active politics, Nujoma was not re-elected to the SWAPO Central Committee or the Politburo, but the congress granted him permission to attend meetings of the Central Committee and Politburo " at his discretion ".
Nujoma's son Utoni Nujoma is Deputy Minister of Justice and was elected to the Central Committee and Politburo of SWAPO at its November 2007 congress.
The film is based loosely on the memoirs of Namibia's first president Sam Nujoma, who was the former leader of the South West Africa People's Organization SWAPO.
As the leadership contest was underway, Hamutenya was dismissed from his position as Foreign Minister by President Sam Nujoma on 24 May, because Nujoma accused him of inciting division within the ranks of the party in the countries Omaheke region.
Nujoma and President
* 1929 – Sam Nujoma, Namibian politician, 1st President of Namibia
* May 12 – Sam Nujoma, first President of Namibia
The transition from the 15-year rule of President Sam Nujoma to his successor, Hifikepunye Pohamba in 2005 went smoothly.
President Sam Nujoma has been vocal in his support of Zimbabwe and its president Robert Mugabe.
When Namibia gained its independence in 1990 SWAPO became the dominant political party, with its head, Sam Nujoma, elected as Namibia's first President.
Nujoma meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Windhoek on 25 June 2009.
While Pohamba replaced Nujoma as the President of Namibia, Nujoma stayed on as President of SWAPO.
In early October 2007, however, Nujoma said that he had no intention of seeking re-election as SWAPO President and would stand aside in favor of Pohamba, the Vice-President of SWAPO, later in the year, after 47 years as party leader.
His Excellency Dr. Sam Nujoma, President of the Republic of Namibia, received the Cheetah Conservation Fund ’ s 2004 Lifetime Conservation Award.
President Sam Nujoma had interests in Congo similar to that of Mugabe, with several family members deeply involved in Congolese mining.
In 1964, he went to Lusaka to set up SWAPO's Zambian office, and on his return, met the man who was later to become President, Sam Nujoma.
Although there was speculation that Nujoma would seek re-election as SWAPO President in 2007 and then run for President of Namibia again in 2009, he denied these rumours in early October 2007, saying that he intended to step down as party leader in favour of Pohamba.
He was appointed Minister of Labor on August 27, 2002, and after nearly two years in that position he was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs by President Sam Nujoma on May 27, 2004.
Mishake Muyongo led the party through the early years of independence, and in the 1994 presidential election he placed second, behind President Sam Nujoma, with 23. 08 % of the vote.
Former President Sam Nujoma appointed her Ombudsman, on recommendation of the Judicial Services Commission, in 1996 and she served here, investigating and resolving complaints of maladministration at all levels until 2003.
Nujoma and Namibia
* Namibia: A limited land reform has been a hallmark of the regime of Sam Nujoma ; legislation passed in September 1994, with a compulsory, compensated approach.
The director of the National Society for Human Rights ( NSHR ) in Namibia stated that Nujoma had connections to the CIA.
In 2009, Sam Nujoma attained a Master's degree in Geology from the University of Namibia.
Nujoma received a Doctorate honoris causa in Public Management from Polytechnic of Namibia in 2005.
For example in 1991, then-president of Namibia Sam Nujoma renamed the main street ( Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße ) Sam Nujoma Avenue in honor of himself.
After becoming president, Pohamba also took over the chancellorship of the University of Namibia from Nujoma in November 2011.
A year later, he convened a meeting in Stockholm between the SWAPO leadership ( Sam Nujoma, Hage Geingob and Hidipo Hamutenya ), and a delegation of " whites " from Namibia to discuss developments in the independence process.
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The latter had been dismissed from his post of Foreign Affairs minister by Nujoma barely two days before the congress.
He was backed by Nujoma, who was then serving his third five-year term ; Pohamba has been described as Nujoma's hand-picked successor.
Nujoma and Pohamba
Nujoma said that he was " passing the torch and mantle of leadership to comrade Pohamba ".
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In 1982, the Alhaji Shehu Shagari government urged the visiting Pontiff Pope John Paul II to grant audience to the leaders of Southern Africa guerrilla organisations Oliver Tambo of the ANC and Sam Nujoma of SWAPO.
Namibia's founding president, Sam Nujoma.
Sam Nujoma won the presidential elections of 1994 with 76. 34 % of the votes.
In 1998, with one year until the scheduled presidential election when Sam Nujoma would not be allowed to participate in since he had already served the two terms that the constitution allows, SWAPO amended the constitution, allowing three terms instead of two.
The planes were bought just few weeks after Sam Nujoma had appealed to the international community for drought aid.
Many years later, Nujoma is still being criticized for excessive luxury and perks he gets at the cost of Namibian state, that is applying for the status of least developed country.
In 1990 Nujoma initiated a plan for land reform, in which land would be redistributed from whites to blacks.
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