WINDHOEK: Former South West Africa National Union (Swanu) president and academic, Dr Rihupisa Kandando has died.
A relative confirmed to Nampa that Kandando died in the early morning hours of Sunday at a hospital in Windhoek where he was hospitalised following a stroke a few weeks ago.
He was 60 years old.
Kandando, who was born in Gobabis in the Omaheke Region in 1963, was the leader of Swanu from 1998 till 2007.
Source: The Namibia Press Agency