Otjinene

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Village in eastern Namibia

title: "Otjinene" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-the-omaheke-region", "villages-in-namibia"] description: "Village in eastern Namibia" topic_path: "general/populated-places-in-the-omaheke-region" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otjinene" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village in eastern Namibia ::

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Otjinene is a village in the Omaheke Region of Namibia.{{cite news |title = More settlements coming |last = Smit |first = Nico |url = http://www.namibian.com.na/news-articles/national/full-story/archive/2011/september/article/more-settlements-coming/ |newspaper = The Namibian |date = 20 September 2011 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120603172531/http://www.namibian.com.na/news-articles/national/full-story/archive/2011/september/article/more-settlements-coming/ |archivedate = 3 June 2012 |title=Otjinene Heads for Town Status |last=Hoveka |first=Utaara |url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200407191312.html |newspaper=New Era |date=19 July 2004 |publisher=allafrica.com}} and had a population of 6,876 people in 2023.

Geography

Otjinene is connected via a 157 km tarred road to the regional capital Gobabis,{{cite news |url=http://www.newera.com.na/articles/47380/President-commissions-Otjinene-road |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130221114708/http://www.newera.com.na/articles/47380/President-commissions-Otjinene-road |url-status=usurped |archive-date=21 February 2013 |title=President commissions Otjinene road |last=Nunuhe |first=Margareth |date=3 September 2012 |work=New Era}} and via a 227 km road which was tarred in 2017, to Grootfontein.

Otjinene is surrounded by a communal area, where there are many villages. There are more or less 20 households in each village. The majority of people around Otjinene are communal farmers, farming with cattle, goats and sheep. There is one health clinic which is operated by the Ministry of Health and Social Services, and a number of retail stores.

18 km to the Northeast is the Ozombuzovindimba heritage site. This is the place where in 1904 Lothar von Trotha issued the extermination order against the OvaHerero and Nama people, starting the Herero and Namaqua Genocide which would kill about 80% of all OvaHerero. OvaHerero and OvaMbanderu people gather annually here to commemorate lives and deaths of their ancestors.

Politics

Otjinene was proclaimed a village by the government in 2011. Lesley Kauandara, is currently serving as the chairperson of the Otjinene Village Council.https://neweralive.na/otjinene-village-council-acknowledges-beauty-contestants/#google_vignette

Otjinene is one of the few local authorities where Namibia's ruling SWAPO party is in the opposition. In the 2015 local authority election it only gained one seat (488 votes). The election was won by the National Unity Democratic Organisation (NUDO) which gained three seats (787 votes). The remaining seat went to the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA, 204 votes). NUDO also won the 2020 local authority election. It obtained 823 votes and gained three village council seats. One seat each went to the Popular Democratic Movement (PDM), formerly DTA, with 351 votes and to SWAPO (319 votes).

References

References

  2. (15 October 2014). "Okamatapati to Grootfontein road to be upgraded at N$523 million". [[New Era (Namibia).
  3. Tjitemisa, Kuzeeko. (29 September 2016). "Top SA retailers to open doors in Otjinene". [[New Era (Namibia).
  4. "4.5 Population by town and census years (2011 and 2023)". [[Namibia Statistics Agency]].
  5. (2015). "Know Your Local Authority". Institute for Public Policy Research.
  6. (28 November 2015). "Local elections results". [[Electoral Commission of Namibia]].
  7. (29 November 2020). "2020 Local Authority Elections Results and Allocation of Seats". [[Electoral Commission of Namibia]].

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