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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span> <\/b>
\n1929 \u2013 Born on 12 May 1929<\/b> at the Etunda village, Omusati region in the north-western part of Namibia to Daniel Utoni Nujoma and Helvi Mpingana Kondombolo.<\/p>\n

1937-1945<\/b> \u2014 Attended school at Okahao Finnish Mission School.<\/p>\n

1946 <\/b>\u2014 Moved to Walvis Bay to live with his aunt, Gebhart Nandjule.<\/p>\n

1947<\/b>\u2014While in Walvis Bay, he is exposed to modern world politics after meeting soldiers returning from Argentina, Norway, and other parts of Europe who had been taken there during World War II.<\/p>\n

1949<\/b>\u2014 Moved to Windhoek, where he lived with his uncle Hiskia Kondombolo. Started working for the South African Railways and attended adult night school at St. Barnabas in Windhoek\u2019s Old Location.<\/p>\n

6 May 1956 <\/b>\u2014 Married Kovambo Theopoldine Katjimune. Together, they have four children.<\/p>\n

1957<\/b>\u2014 Resigned from the South African Railways.<\/p>\n

1959 <\/b>\u2014 Elected leader of the Ovamboland People\u2019s Organisation (OPO), which aimed at ending the then contract system and ending the South African colonial regime. Nujoma petitioned the United Nations in the late fifties, together with Chief Hosea Kutako, Samuel Witbooi, Theophilus Hamutumbangela, Toivo ya Toivo, and others, demanding that the then South West Africa be placed under the UN Trusteeship.<\/p>\n

10 December 1959 <\/b>\u2013 Nujoma, with Swanu\u2019s Uatja Kaukuetu, Moses Garoeb, and others, organised resistance against the forced removal of the inhabitants of the Old Location in Windhoek to the new township of Katutura, a move which was based on the apartheid policy. This culminated in the massacre of 12 innocent, unarmed black people and injury to many others.<\/p>\n

1 March 1960 <\/b>\u2014 He went into exile via the then British protectorate of Bechuanaland.<\/p>\n

April 1960 <\/b>\u2014 Attended the All African People\u2019s Conference organised by President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana against the French atom bomb test in the Sahara Desert. With the assistance of Daniel Munamava, he was able to cross the borders of Bechuanaland [now Botswana], Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, Tanganyika, Kenya, and Sudan.<\/p>\n

19 April 1960<\/b> \u2014 Swapo was formed, and Nujoma elected its president in absentia.<\/p>\n

June 1960<\/b> \u2014 Petitioned before the UN Fourth Committee of the General Assembly demanding the end of the South African colonial administration.<\/p>\n

March 1966 <\/b>\u2014 In a bid to test South Africa\u2019s claims at the International Court of Justice at The Hague that Namibians in exile were free to return, Nujoma, accompanied by Hifikepunye Pohamba, chartered a plane to Windhoek. They are arrested on arrival at the airport and deported to Zambia.<\/p>\n

1977 \u2013 1978<\/b> \u2013 Led Swapo\u2019s negotiations team, which culminated in the adoption of the UN Security Council Resolution 435.<\/p>\n

19 March 1989<\/b>\u2014 Signed the cease fire agreement with South Africa, resulting in the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 435.<\/p>\n

16 February 1990<\/b> \u2014 Unanimously elected by the National Assembly as President of the Republic of Namibia.<\/p>\n

21 March 1990<\/b>\u2014Sworn in as first President of the Republic of Namibia.<\/p>\n

1994\u20131999<\/b> \u2014 Re-elected for two more terms in office.<\/p>\n

21 March 2005<\/b> \u2014 Stepped down, handing over the power to his successor, Hifikepunye Pohamba.<\/p>\n

30 November 2007 <\/b>\u2014 Stepped down as Swapo president after 47 years.<\/p>\n

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