The Deputy Kaptein of the |Hai-|Khaua clan and liberation struggle stalwart, Stephanus Goliath, has been buried at his ancestral village of Berseba in the ||Kharas Region. 

Hundreds of mourners flocked to Berseba village to pay their last respect at the state funeral service. 

Chief Mourner President Hage Geingob, First Lady Monica Geingos, and Vice-President Nangolo Mbumba were among the prominent mourners who attended the late Goliath's burial. 

Late Goliath died at the age of 78 on the 10th of March after battling cancer.

The Namibian Defence Force members honored the late Goliath with a 13-gun salute as his casket was being lowered. 

In their tribute, |Hai-|Khaua tribesmen formed a guard of honour on their horsebacks and rode them around the grave site. 

Reverend Stephanus Tiboth assisted by Emeritus Reverend Andreas Biwa delivered the funeral sermon.  

During the week of memorials, Goliath was remembered as a humble person, educator, and revolutionary, who resisted apartheid during the South African colonial rule through the liberation struggle war Swapo Party waged against the apartheid oppressors. 

Resisting the Bantu Education, the late Goliath played a critical role in the establishment of the Ecumenical Community School in his hometown, where he influenced the political thinking of students there. 

Late Goliath, who became the first Governor of the ||Kharas Region after independence, was tormented with imprisonment in Gobabis and Windhoek prisons for his fight against the apartheid regime. 

The departed now Gaob also served as Swapo Party's Central Committee member for two terms after independence. 

The widow Elizabeth Goliath followed by President Geingob was the first to say farewell.