Okahao Constituency is an

electoral constituency An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provid ...

in the

Omusati Region Omusati (the Oshindonga word for Mopane, the dominant tree in the area) is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, its capital is Outapi. The towns of Okahao, Oshikuku and Ruacana as well as the self-governed village Tsandi are situated in ...

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. It had 12,390 registered voters . Its district capital is the town of

Okahao Okahao is a town in the Omusati Region of northern Namibia and the district capital of the Okahao electoral constituency which is the largest constituency in Omusati region in terms of area. It is a former mission station of the Finnish Mission ...

, the birth place of Namibia's founding president

Sam Nujoma Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma ( ; 12May 19298February 2025) was a Namibian revolutionary, anti-apartheid activist and politician who served three terms as the first president of Namibia, from 1990 to 2005. Nujoma was a founding member and t ...

. Okahao Constituency was created in 1998 from existing constituencies of Omusati, following a recommendation of the ''Second Delimitation Commission of Namibia'', and in preparation of the 1998 general election. It covers an area of . Okahao Constituency had a population of 17,548 in 2011, down from 17,751 in 2001.

Villages

* Uutsathima, away from Okahao. It is home to Uutsathima Combined School, a school predominantly for

San people The San peoples (also Saan), or Bushmen, are the members of any of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa, and the oldest surviving cultures of the region. They are thought to have diverged from other humans 100,000 to 200 ...

with 12 teachers and more than 300 pupils.

Politics

Like all other constituencies in Omusati, Okahao constituency is traditionally a stronghold of the

South West Africa People's Organization The South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO ; , SWAVO; , SWAVO), officially known as the SWAPO Party of Namibia, is a political party and former independence movement in Namibia (formerly South West Africa). Founded in 1960, it has been ...

(SWAPO) party. The 2004 regional election was won by SWAPO politician Isai Paulus Kapenambili. He received 6,039 of the 6,104 votes cast. In the 2015 local and regional elections SWAPO candidate Leonard Shikulo won uncontested and became councillor after no opposition party nominated a candidate. Councillor Shikulo (SWAPO) was reelected in the 2020 regional election. He obtained 4,694 votes, far ahead of the only opposition candidate, Erastus Shipopyeni of the

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(IPC, an opposition party formed in August 2020), who obtained 396 votes.

References

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