On Heroes Day, we remember David Sheehama, a businessman and liberation icon who clothed, fed, transported PLAN soldiers, gave them bicycles, toiletries and many more when it was not fashionable to do so. On 14 March 1980, he was brutally riddled with bullets in his home...
...by Kovoets who woke him out of his bed at 3 a.m, told him to lie on the ground so they can kill him. His wife who was pregnant at that time was also shot 5 times, but survived. His properties were burned down, his documents confiscated, his bank accounts frozen and deleted...
...at the time when the Minister of Economic Affairs (today's Ministry of Finance) was, you know who 🤔. Tatekulu Sheehama really sold sweets, and had he been alive today, he would be the richest man in Namibia.
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