Namibia: Hug-A - Geingob ? That's a Bargain

7 December 2012
opinion

THE Namibian nation must as a question of necessity back-page into the political history to a date that is not only significant to Gottfried Hage Geingob but to all of us in this desert-sandwiched south-west African territory we have unanimously baptized Namibia.

Gottfried's hands are still sweaty and his memories about the cause of that ever sweet and unforgettable. I am talking about an important day on the calendar of the liberation movement when he led the first repatriation of a plane-load of men, women and exile-born children to the tarmac of what is patriotically now internationally known as Hosea Kutako Airport outside the capital, Windhoek.

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