great grandchildren. Mudge was the father of fellow politician Henk Mudge who succeeded him as leader of the Republican Party. In May 2015, at the age of 86, Mudge published his autobiography. The book was originally written in Afrikaans and titled "Dirk Mudge: Enduit vir ’n onafhanklike Namibië". The book was then translated to English and released in May 2016 with the title "All the way to an independent Namibia". In the preface of the English version, Piet Croucamp writes: “Mudge’s memoir does not relive the past in times of modernity. The reader becomes displaced ‒ in a way ‒ to a familiar but awkward if not painful past. The narrative, conceived in stigma and shame, is presented with a “respectability” or even bizarre “reality” which once was “normal” to some and an abomination to others. Dirk Mudge has made a remarkable contribution with a text which merits both literary and scholarly value. The work was not intended as a comprehensive history of Namibia ‒ it is a memoir about the life and times of Dirk Mudge.” In 2020, Mudge contracted COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia and developed a lung infection. He died on 26 August in a private clinic in Windhoek at age 92. References Sources External links Interview with Dirk Mudge by Tor Sellström within the project Nordic Documentation on the Liberation Struggle in Southern Africa – dated 18 March 1995. 1929 births 2020 deaths Members of the National Assembly (Namibia) Popular Democratic Movement politicians Afrikaner people Republican Party (Namibia) politicians Namibian people of German descent National Party (South Africa) politicians Members of the House of Assembly (South Africa) Namibian farmers White Namibian people Apartheid government People from Otjozondjupa Region Stellenbosch University alumni Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Namibia