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He was the President of SWAPO (South West African People's Organization) while leading an armed struggle against the then occupying foreign and colonial power, South Africa.
South Africa administered the land under a policy of apartheid, or division, in which the best resources were reserved for those classified white, while indigenous Namibians were treated as inferior and forbidden from active participation in their country. Nujoma led SWAPO in an armed struggle to end the South African occupation.
As head of SWAPO, Nujoma was unanimously declared president upon the victory of SWAPO in a United Nations-supervised election, and was sworn in as president by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar on March 21, 1990.
Nujoma had the constitution of Namibia changed to allow him to run for a third five-year term in 1999. He won that election with 76.8% of the vote. The constitution does not allow him to run again in November 2004 for a fourth term, and Hifikepunye Pohamba, described by some as Nujoma's "hand-picked successor", is the SWAPO candidate for president. Nujoma will remain head of the SWAPO party until 2007. [1]
Nujoma has initiated a plan for land reformLand reform (also agrarian reform is the government-initiated or government-backed transfer of ownership of (or tenure in) agricultural land. The term most often refers to transfer from ownership by a relatively small number of wealthy (or noble) owners w, in which land would be redistributed from whites (who, despite constituting only a small percentage of the population, own a disproportionately large amount of the nation's farmland) to blacks, although he maintains that this will be done on a "willing buyer, willing seller" basis.
Nujoma was born in the north of the country, in Ongandjera , and his mother Gwakondobolo was still alive as of May 20042004 : January February March April May June July August September October November December May 31, 2004 Memorial Day: President Bush honors the United States' war dead of past conflicts, and says that "two terror regimes are gone forever" in Iraq and Af.
See also: History of NamibiaThe history of Namibia has passed through several distinct stages, and Namibia as a modern state has only existed since the early 1980s. Previous to independence the area occupied by modern Namibia was part of as German colony as German South West Africa
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