Tsjaka is a settlement in the

Omaheke Region Omaheke (the Otjiherero word for sandveld) is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, the least populous region. Its capital is Gobabis. It lies in eastern Namibia on the border with Botswana and is the western extension of the Kalahari Desert ...

in eastern

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. Located approximately south of the regional capital

Gobabis Gobabis (, ) is a town in eastern Namibia. It is the regional capital of the Omaheke Region, and the district capital of the Gobabis electoral constituency. Gobabis is in the heart of the cattle farming area. It had a population of 33,418 peop ...

, it is inhabited primarily by the

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and

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. The village can only be reached by a gravel road via the C22 regional road. Tsjaka belongs to the

Kalahari Constituency Kalahari Constituency (until 1998 Buitepos Constituency) is an electoral constituency in the Omaheke Region of eastern central Namibia. It had 5,294 registered voters . The constituency covers an area of . It had a population of 7,611 in 2011 ...

of Omaheke Region. The settlement features a centre of the ''Komeho Development Agency'', a

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that also provides accommodation facilities for visitors, several farms in the radius of 50 kilometres and a primary school. The Mphe Thuto Primary School serves 440 learners from the settlement and the neighbouring farms and location.''Mphe Thuto Primary School''
Website of mphethuto.de, accessed 10 June 2014 The main economic activity is subsistence farming with goats and sheep.

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Populated places in the Omaheke Region {{Namibia-geo-stub