NEWS - NAMIBIA
| 2013-08-05Govt air-lifts ailing Nujoma helper from Botswana
Clemans Miyanicwe
Ludwig Kanduketu Stanley
THE government last week dispatched a plane and a doctor to air-lift from Botswana Ludwig Kanduketu Stanley, the man who helped former President Sam Nujoma to escape into exile in 1960.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah confirmed that a plane was dispatched to air-lift Namibian citizen Stanley, who needed urgent medical attention, from Botswana to Namibia on Thursday. Nandi-Ndaitwah said Stanley collapsed in Botswana.
Although she could not say in which hospital Stanley was admitted, The Namibian understands that he is currently in the presidential suite of the Windhoek Central Hospital.
“Namibian government cares for its citizens,” Nandi-Ndaitwa told The Namibian on Friday adding that Stanley needed urgent rescue. Stanley gave Nujoma a lift when he was escaping from the then South West Africa on 01 March 1960. Stanley was born to an English father and a Herero mother in 1928 in Windhoek and grew up in Onbujonumbonde in Okakarara.
When he was 15, Stanley followed his father who had left for Botswana but returned to Namibia to join the late Chief Hosea Kutako’s council as a messenger or transport officer. Stanley’s role in assisting Nujoma to escape into exile put him on the apartheid police’s most wanted list.
Although she could not say in which hospital Stanley was admitted, The Namibian understands that he is currently in the presidential suite of the Windhoek Central Hospital.
“Namibian government cares for its citizens,” Nandi-Ndaitwa told The Namibian on Friday adding that Stanley needed urgent rescue. Stanley gave Nujoma a lift when he was escaping from the then South West Africa on 01 March 1960. Stanley was born to an English father and a Herero mother in 1928 in Windhoek and grew up in Onbujonumbonde in Okakarara.
When he was 15, Stanley followed his father who had left for Botswana but returned to Namibia to join the late Chief Hosea Kutako’s council as a messenger or transport officer. Stanley’s role in assisting Nujoma to escape into exile put him on the apartheid police’s most wanted list.
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