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'''Peter Eneas Nanyemba (Ndilimani)''' (born 1935 - died 1 April 1983) was a [[Namibia]]n freedom fighter<ref>http://www.informante.web.na/index.php?option=com_content |
'''Peter Eneas Nanyemba (Ndilimani)''' (born 1935 - died 1 April 1983) was a [[Namibia]]n freedom fighter<ref name="inf">{{cite web|url=http://www.informante.web.na/index.php?option=com_content&id=6155&Itemid=100|title=A tribute to Peter Eneas Nanyemba Ndilimani Lyomukunda W?amupolo|publisher=Informante|accessdate=11 July 2013}}</ref> and Commander of the [[Swapo]] Party's military wing, the [[People's Liberation Army of Namibia]] (PLAN). He also arranged training and equipment for PLAN. |
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==Early Life== |
==Early Life== |
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Nanyemba grew up in [[Owamboland]] in the north of Namibia and had to work as a herder dusring the schoolyears. He subsequently moved to [[Walvis Bay]] where he went in the circles critical of the apartheid regime.<ref name="inf" |
Nanyemba grew up in [[Owamboland]] in the north of Namibia and had to work as a herder dusring the schoolyears. He subsequently moved to [[Walvis Bay]] where he went in the circles critical of the apartheid regime.<ref name="inf"/> |
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==Political Career== |
==Political Career== |
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Revision as of 19:58, 11 July 2013
Peter Eneas Nanyemba (Ndilimani) (born 1935 - died 1 April 1983) was a Namibian freedom fighter[1] and Commander of the Swapo Party's military wing, the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN). He also arranged training and equipment for PLAN.
Early Life
Nanyemba grew up in Owamboland in the north of Namibia and had to work as a herder dusring the schoolyears. He subsequently moved to Walvis Bay where he went in the circles critical of the apartheid regime.[1]
Political Career
Nanyemba left Namibia in 1962 to join others already abroad in order to wage the struggle from outside of Namibia. He served as a Swapo representative in East Africa with a base in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. During the Tanga Consultative Conference, he was elected Secretary of Defence, a position he held until his death on 1 April 1983 when he died in a car accident in Lubango in the Angola's Huila Province.
Recognition
A primary school was built and named after him in Angola in 2005, also a rehabilitation of the cemetery and a monument outside Lubango at the cost of N$ 8,5 million.[2]
References
- ^ a b "A tribute to Peter Eneas Nanyemba Ndilimani Lyomukunda W?amupolo". Informante. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
- ^ http://www.republikein.com.na/afrika/namibia-inaugurates-primary-school-in-angola.91783.php