NAMIBIA LOST A GREAT LEADER, BUT I LOST A BROTHER: BASTOS

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2025-02-16

WALVIS BAY, 14 February 2025 - José Luis Bastos, 89, pages through his autobiography, where he also shares many memories with his old friend, Founding President Sam Nujoma, whom he met during the early years of Namibia’s independence. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

By Isabel Bento
(NAMPA FEATURES SERVICE)

SWAKOPMUND, 16 FEB (NAMPA) – “He once gave up his room for me while he went to spend the night at his mother’s house, then returned the next morning with a helicopter to fetch me. He was really my chommie.”
‘Chommie,’ an informal term for friend, was how 89-year-old José Luis Bastos described Founding President Sam Nujoma, with whom he had been friends for over three decades, during an interview with Namp...

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WALVIS BAY, 14 February 2025 - A photograph of the two friends, Founding President Sam Nujoma and Jose Luis Bastos, after a successful hunting expedition. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

WALVIS BAY, 14 February 2025 - José Luis Bastos, 89, narrates the story of his friendship with Founding President Sam Nujoma, whom he met during the early years of Namibia’s independence. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

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