Namibia Apartheid politician turned independence advocate dies of COVID-19
Dirk Mudge, a white Namibian who began his political life with the pro-Apartheid National Party but later lobbied for Namibia’s independence from South African white-minority rule, has died after contracting COVID-19, aged 92. He died in a hospital in the capital Windhoek late on Tuesday. A polarizing figure, Mudge’s opponents accused him of delaying Namibia’s…