{"id":23601,"date":"2022-06-29T17:28:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/geingob-pays-tribute-to-late-nama-chief"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T17:28:11","slug":"geingob-pays-tribute-to-late-nama-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/geingob-pays-tribute-to-late-nama-chief","title":{"rendered":"Geingob pays tribute to late Nama chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>President Hage Geingob yesterday extended condolences to the family and the entire Nama community following the passing of chief Simon Petrus Kooper of the Kai-\/\/ Khaun tribe at Hoachanas.<\/p>\n<p>Kooper, who was also the Nama Traditional Leaders Association (NTLA), died on Monday in Hoachanas after a short illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLater today (yesterday), the NTLA will convene to discuss how to honour our late chief. I won\u2019t be able to speak to the media until after that,\u201d NTLA secretary general Doedat Dirkse told New Era yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Geingob said the passing of Kooper is a great loss to the Kai-\/\/Khaun clan, which he served diligently as their leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChief Kooper will be remembered as one of the vocal champions on the issue of genocide and restorative justice \u2013 and stood firmly for what he believed in,\u201d Geingob said, adding that as a nation, the country has lost a community leader, who worked tirelessly towards social justice and socio-economic development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish to extend my condolences to the children, the bereaved family, the<\/p>\n<p>Kai-\/\/Khaun clan and the entire Nama Traditional Leaders Association. Let us accept God\u2019s wish during this hour of grief, and may we find solace in his word,\u201d Geingob said.<\/p>\n<p>Kooper, who had been very vocal alongside the late paramount chief Vekuii Rukoro on the exclusion of the Nama and Ovaherero communities from the ongoing 1904 to 1908 genocide reparation negotiations, was installed as chief in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Leader of the official opposition, the Popular Democratic Movement, McHenry Venaani, said Kooper represented a key component of the genocide debate as well as a staunch and valiant representative of the Nama people in genocide negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChief Kooper was a respected leader, who played an integral part in uniting the Kai-\/\/ Khaun clan, which is an important constituent of our greater nationhood,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Gaob Kooper was a proud and respected custodian of customs and traditions that were centuries old, he was equally passionate about the socio-economic development of the Hoachanas community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the nation has certainly lost a historian and orator of note, who served as a guiding light and an anchor for his community during turbulent times.<\/p>\n<p>Venaani says Kooper\u2019s legacy of determination lives on through those he impacted positively during his chieftaincy and in his personal capacity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. President Hage Geingob yesterday extended condolences to the family and the entire Nama community following the passing of chief Simon Petrus Kooper of the Kai-\/\/ Khaun tribe at Hoachanas. Kooper, who was also the Nama Traditional Leaders Association (NTLA), died on Monday in Hoachanas after a short illness. \u201cLater today (yesterday), the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":23600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-23601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Geingob pays tribute to late Nama chief - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/geingob-pays-tribute-to-late-nama-chief\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Geingob pays tribute to late Nama chief\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. 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