Liberation struggle stalwart and teacher Onesmus Akwenye has died in a Windhoek hospital at the age of 86.
Commissioner general Raphael Hamunyela, a relative, has confirmed that Akwenye died on 18 April.
“He was admitted at a Windhoek hospital and died on the 18th of April,” Hamunyela has said.
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