President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says while Namibia has secured its political freedom and sovereignty, the country's focus must now shift to economic emancipation. 

From the battlefront to the honours list. 

Namibians who took part in the fight for freedom have now received the country's salute ahead of the Heroes Day commemoration on Wednesday. 

A procession carrying the remains of liberation stalwarts who were reburied at the Heroes' Acre today passed through parts of Windhoek ahead of the official reburial ceremony.

After more than five decades, Namibia has laid to rest two liberation heroes who died in captivity on Robben Island, while honouring six others whose remains and legacies have now been brought together at Heroes' Acre.

As Namibia honours the heroes of liberation, we also look at the stories of ordinary 
people who lived through historical periods.

Magrietha Kuhlman, a centenarian from Bethanie in the ||Kharas Region, bears testimony as a young woman during the apartheid era.

The National Solidarity Committee with Cuba has joined the people of Namibia in commemorating the 102nd anniversary of the birth of the late Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, one of Namibia's liberation stalwarts.

The family of the veteran Fillemon Nangolo has paid tribute to him ahead of the reburial at the Heroe's Acre tomorrow.

The late "Nduuvu'' Nangolo was born in 1952 at Oshaandjela Village near Ondangwa in the Oshana Region.

As the country prepares to commemorate Heroes Day on 26 August, NBC caught up with former PLAN combatant Bartholomeus Shangheta.

The remains of former Robben Island political prisoners Festus Nehale and Simon Petrus Niilenge, along with 84 ancestral remains, have finally arrived at the Hosea Kutako International Airport this morning.

The government says the repatriation of the remains of two former political prisoners Simon Niilenge and Festus Nehale from Cape Town, South Africa, is about restoring dignity, reconnecting families with their ancestors and addressing a painful chapter in the country's liberation history.