{"id":355735,"date":"2024-03-13T14:59:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=355735"},"modified":"2024-03-13T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:59:18","slug":"botswana-honours-late-president-geingob-and-praises-strong-namibian-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=355735","title":{"rendered":"Botswana honours late President Geingob and praises strong Namibian relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Staff Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRESIDENT Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana emphasized that Namibia and Botswana have always had excellent relations, adding that the late President Hage Geingob significantly contributed to this relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Masisi highlighted the longstanding nature of this relationship, recalling that before Namibia gained independence in 1990, Botswana provided refuge and safe passage to Namibians fleeing oppression and persecution from white minority settler regimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are humbled that such an enduring legacy of sustained democratic ideals and a climate of peace gave the necessary assurance to our neighbours who fled atrocities from East, West, North, and South, to finally settle in Botswana, or opted to use Botswana as a reliable conduit to Lusaka, to Arusha, and Dar es Salaam. Dr. Geingob was among those that came to Botswana through the same channel before the journey took him to distant lands to intensify their campaigns for material and other forms of support necessary to aid their justified and noble cause,” President Masisi explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n