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Mr Dyasi still remembers the sense of freedom and optimism he felt when he left prison in 1990 after South Africa's last white ruler FW de Klerk unbanned the ANC and other liberation movements, paving the way for anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela to become the first black president four years later.

He remembers the bumpy drive to a hospital morgue where he was asked to identify the bodies of his pregnant girlfriend, his cousin and a fellow anti-apartheid fighter.

“If your project is to constantly propagandize a pro-Israel position, someone like myself who is openly against antisemitism and works actively to educate people on dogwhistles and also happens to be anti-apartheid is more dangerous. Because I’m the one who’s going to be radicalizing their nieces and nephews, and that is what’s terrifying.”

The two countries have generally had friendly relations since the end of white-minority rule in 1994 when anti-apartheid icon and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela was elected South Africa's first black president.

Nujoma was branded a "Marxist terrorist" by South Africa's white leaders for leading forces that fought alongside the anti-apartheid movement, posing a formidable challenge to the oppressive regimes in several southern African countries.