Namibia's former High Commissioner to South Africa, Joshua ||Hoëbeb, recalls the understanding the late Founding President, Sam Nujoma, had in the capabilities of every Swapo leader in the process of nation-building.

||Hoëbeb says the late Nujoma appointed him as High Commissioner with the specific task of ensuring the reintegration of Walvis Bay into Namibia during the crucial negotiations after independence for the return of the port.

He says he had initially communicated his reluctance to accept the task, given its complex nature and inexperience in diplomacy, but the late Nujoma persuaded and encouraged him to take it on.

||Hoëbeb, was also the Swapo Party's first Governor of the Kunene Region from 2010 to 2015 after the Regional Council's Act was amended for Governors to be appointed by the President.

nbc's Blanche Goreses caught up with the retired politician after he paid his last respects to the fallen Namibian leader at the Nujoma family residence outside Windhoek.