{"id":93787,"date":"2021-08-10T14:02:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricaportal.com\/?p=93787"},"modified":"2021-08-10T14:02:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T14:02:46","slug":"sam-nujoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricaportal.com\/sam-nujoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography of Sam Nujoma: Age, Wife, Career &#038; Net Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration-line: underline;\"><strong>Sam Nujoma: <em>Biography of Sam Nujoma, Age, Wife, Career &amp; Net Worth<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sam Nujoma (born 12 May 1929) is a Namibian revolutionary, anti-apartheid activist and politician who served three terms as the first President of Namibia, from 1990 to 2005.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/southafricaportal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Sam-Nujoma.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"93811\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/southafricaportal.com\/sam-nujoma\/sam-nujoma-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/southafricaportal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Sam-Nujoma.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,168\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sam Nujoma\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/southafricaportal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Sam-Nujoma.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/southafricaportal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Sam-Nujoma.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-93811\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/southafricaportal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Sam-Nujoma.jpg?resize=300%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sam Nujoma\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Sam Nujoma Age<\/h2>\n<p>He was born on the 12th of May 1929 in Ongandjera, Ovamboland, South West Africa (now Omusati Region, Namibia). As of 2021, he is 92 years old and celebrates his birthday on May 12th every year.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Sam_Nujoma_Wife\" class=\"ez-toc-section\"><\/span>Sam Nujoma Wife<\/h2>\n<p>On May 6, 1951, Nujoma married Kovambo Mushimba. Utoni Nujoma (1952), John Nujoma (1954), Sakaria \u201cZacky\u201d Nujoma (1957), Nelago Nujoma (1959), who died at the age of 18 months when Nujoma was in exile, and Usuta Nujoma (1960) were the couple\u2019s children (1964).<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Career\" class=\"ez-toc-section\"><\/span>Career<\/h2>\n<p>Nujoma got interested in politics through trade unions in the early 1950s. He was the first president of the Ovamboland People\u2019s Organization (OPO), which he co-founded in 1959. He became the first president of the South West Africa People\u2019s Organization the following year (SWAPO).<\/p>\n<p>He was succeeded by\u00a0Hifikepunye Pohamba\u00a0in 2007 after 47 years as the leader of SWAPO. It was widely assumed that he would be re-elected as SWAPO leader in 2007 and that he would run for president again in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>When SWAPO won a United Nations-supervised election in 1989, he was unanimously declared president and sworn in by UN Secretary-General Javier P\u00e9rez de Cu\u00e9llar on March 21, 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Despite resigning from a formal position, Nujoma remains active in politics, routinely campaigning for SWAPO at rallies and festivities across the country. Nujoma graduated from the University of Namibia with a master\u2019s degree in geology in 2009.<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Net_Worth\" class=\"ez-toc-section\"><\/span>Net Worth<\/h2>\n<p>He has an estimated net worth of $10 million which he has earned as a politician.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHARE THIS POST WITH OTHERS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Nujoma: Biography of Sam Nujoma, Age, Wife, Career &amp; &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":93811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102721],"tags":[109838],"class_list":["post-93787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-sam-nujoma-age-sam-nujoma-wife-career-net-worth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Biography of Sam Nujoma: Age, Wife, Career &amp; 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