AMBASSADOR TULIAMENI KALOMO ON THE PASSING OF FORMER FIRST LADY PENEHUPIFO POHAMBA
October 19, 2026
Sharing childhood memories from St Mary’s Mission School at Odibo, former ambassador Tuliameni Kalomoh paints a picture of a woman he knew as ‘Kambocho’ — a brilliant, fiercely anti-apartheid student who grew into a liberation-era nurse and midwife.
He recounts their gruelling month-long journey into exile on foot across Angola in 1974, with former first lady Penehupifo Pohamba carrying her young child, and her eventual medical training in Tanzania and Jamaica.
