Olukonda Constituency

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Olukonda Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Oshikoto Region of Namibia. It has 9,094 inhabitants, [1] the district capital is the settlement of Olukonda.

Constituencies of Namibia Wikimedia list article

Each of the 14 regions in Namibia is further subdivided into electoral constituencies. The size of the constituencies varies with the size and population of each region. There are currently 121 constituencies in Namibia. The most populous constituency is Walvis Bay Urban; the least populous is Walvis Bay Rural, both in the Erongo region.

Oshikoto Region Region in Namibia

Oshikoto is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, named after Lake Otjikoto near its former capital Tsumeb. The capital of Oshikoto is Omuthiya. The northern part of the region is agricultural, whereas the main economic activities in the southern part are cattle rearing and mining. The two areas have important cultural and historical links in that the Ndonga people have extracted copper at Tsumeb since the earliest times in order to make rings and tools.

Namibia republic in southern Africa

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean; it shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres of the Zambezi River separates the two countries. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek, and it is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Commonwealth of Nations.

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Politics

Olukonda constituency is traditionally a stronghold of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) party.

In the 2009 general election, incumbent President and SWAPO candidate Hifikepunye Pohamba received 89% of the votes for President. [2] In the 2015 local and regional elections the SWAPO candidate won uncontested and became councillor after no opposition party nominated a candidate. [3]

SWAPO political party

The South-West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO),, and officially known as SWAPO Party of Namibia, is a political party and former independence movement in Namibia. It has been the governing party in Namibia since the country achieved independence in 1990. The party continues to be dominated in number and influence by the Ovambo ethnic group.

Hifikepunye Pohamba 2nd president of Namibia

Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba is a Namibian politician who served as the second President of Namibia from 21 March 2005 to 21 March 2015. He won the 2004 election overwhelmingly as the candidate of SWAPO, the ruling party, and was reelected in 2009. Pohamba was the president of SWAPO from 2007 until his retirement in 2015. He is a recipient of the Ibrahim Prize.

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References

  1. ↑ Constituencies of Namibia, 2004
  2. ↑ Olukonda Swapoparty.org results
  3. ↑ Kangootui, Nomhle (23 October 2015). "Swapo gets ǃNamiǂNûs uncontested". The Namibian . Archived from the original on October 24, 2015.

Coordinates: 17°59′S16°01′E / 17.983°S 16.017°E / -17.983; 16.017

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