Returning home after nearly 30 years in exile
On the eve of my departure I received the sad news from Comrade Hage Geingob of the assassination of Comrade Anton Lubowski by an unknown assailant. On the morning of 14 September 1989, my wife and I, accompanied by the late Comrade Moses Garoeb, then SWAPO Administrative Secretary, and other SWAPO senior officials embarked on a chartered Ethiopian Airline Jet 767, flown by an Ethiopian captain accompanied by Namibian co-pilots whom SWAPO had trained with Ethiopian Airline. At Luanda airport, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, cabinet ministers and high-ranking officials from the MPLA Party saw us off and wished us a successful electioneering campaign. After two and half hours flight, we touched down at 12:30 p.m. at the then J.J. Strijdom Airport (now Hosea Kutako International Airport).
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