We convey the condolences of the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) on the passing of the founding father of the Nation and president of the Republic of Namibia, His Excellency Dr Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma on 9 February 2025.

We join the people and the Government of the Republic of Namibia in mourning during this dark moment.

We will, forever, remember His Excellency’s dedication of his life to his people. He lived a remarkable life serving, from an early age, the people of the Republic of Namibia as a freedom fighter, revolutionary leader and the founding father of the Nation.

His extra-ordinary and exemplary leadership laid the foundations on which policies for sectors including water and sanitation were built and established for the benefit of the people of the Land of the Brave and beyond.  

His legacy will always remind us of what it really means to apply the philosophy of ubuntu.