PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba has conferred the honour of national hero on the late former National Assembly Speaker and Swapo veteran, Dr Mose Tjitendero, who died in Windhoek last week.
The 63-year-old former Member of Parliament will be buried at the Heroes’ Acre on Saturday. Pohamba directed that all flags in Namibia be flown at half-mast from Thursday.Tjitendero died in the Roman Catholic Hospital last week after a long illness.Minister of Presidential Affairs Albert Kawana announced that a memorial service will be held in the Parliament Gardens on Friday.Tjitendero served as the first Speaker of Namibia’s National Assembly between 1990 and 2004, and had been a member of the Swapo Central Committee since 1981.He also formed part of the ‘Tanganyika club’ of activists in the 1960s, who worked to propel Swapo into an international movement.Pohamba directed that all flags in Namibia be flown at half-mast from Thursday.Tjitendero died in the Roman Catholic Hospital last week after a long illness.Minister of Presidential Affairs Albert Kawana announced that a memorial service will be held in the Parliament Gardens on Friday.Tjitendero served as the first Speaker of Namibia’s National Assembly between 1990 and 2004, and had been a member of the Swapo Central Committee since 1981.He also formed part of the ‘Tanganyika club’ of activists in the 1960s, who worked to propel Swapo into an international movement.
