Oshakati
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| motto | Unity, Justice, Development (unity, justice, development) |
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Population Area Population Density |
35,600 ( 2010 calculation ) 60.5 km² 588 inhabitants per km² |
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State Region Constituency |
Namibia Oshana Oshakati-East / Oshakati-West |
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| Establishment date | July 1, 1966 | ||
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License plate phone code |
SH 65 |
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| Website | www.oshtc.na | ||
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Political data
Mayor : Engelbert Atshipara , ( SWAPO ) Chief Executive Officer : {{{CEO}}} Last election: 2015 Next election: 2020 City administration address: |
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Geographical data
Geographic coordinates : 17 ° 46′S, 15 ° 42′E |
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Oshakati is the capital of the Oshana region in Namibia and with 36,500 inhabitants is the largest city in the " Four O regions " and the fifth largest city in the country.
Together with Ongwediva, which is directly adjacent to the east, and Ondangwa , which is about 35 km away , Oshakati forms an important urban agglomeration with about 80,000 inhabitants.
geography
The region is located north of the Etosha National Park , making the days of the South African government, together with the regions Omusati , Ohangwena and Oshikoto the Ovamboland . The nearest commercial airport is that of Ondangwa, from where there are scheduled flights to Windhoek. The city is in the area of influence of the Oshanas , who regularly flood the region.
Oshakati is connected to Outapi and Ondangwa via the well-developed C46 main road . In Ondangwa, the road merges into the B1 national road , which runs through Namibia from south to north.
climate
Oshakati has a semi-arid climate (steppe climate BSh, according to the climate classification by Köppen and Geiger ), with hot summers and relatively mild winters (warm days and cold nights). The average annual rainfall is 472 millimeters; the main precipitation occurs in southern summer.
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Oshakati / Ondangwa
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history
Oshakati was founded in 1966 by the South African occupying power, which on the one hand wanted to intensify its economic efforts in northern Namibia from Oshakati and on the other hand needed a strong military base in the north of the country in order to be able to take sustainable action against the independence efforts of the SWAPO . The city grew very quickly in the 1970s and 1980s, mainly due to the increasing need for formal and informal workers.
Due to the South African apartheid policy , Oshakati was divided into a purely “white” East ( Oshakati East ) and a “black” West ( Oshakati West ) until Namibia's independence . The white part of the city was clearly separated from the black settlement areas by some distance , fences and barbed wire . Due to the ongoing Namibian liberation struggle , Oshakati was also administered by the South Africans like a fortress and was institutionally and infrastructurally clearly separated from the rural area around Ovamboland .
In 1974 the South Africans established a military base in the city. For this reason, a pipeline and an adjoining canal were built, which carried water from the Calueque dam from Kunene in the northeast to Oshakati to meet the military's water needs. A drinking water treatment plant ( Oshakati Treatment Plant ) was therefore built in Oshakati . This still exists today, but has insufficient capacity. Other large-scale projects planned to secure Oshakati's water needs in the long term were not implemented due to ongoing military conflicts with SWAPO.
On February 18, 1988, a bomb exploded in Oshakati in the then branch of Barclays Bank on the main road to Oshikuku , killing 27 people and injuring or mutilating many others, some seriously. The building was completely destroyed. To date, no one has confessed to this attack. However, in Namibia the opinion that it was a terrorist attack by the South African occupying power is very widespread. To this day, the survivors of the attack are fighting for financial compensation for their own kind from the Republic of South Africa .
After Namibia's independence in 1990 and the associated withdrawal of the vast majority of South Africans, thousands of unemployed former SWAPO freedom fighters settled in the city within a very short time. Mainly for this reason, shortly after Namibia's independence, Oshakati went through a crisis marked by general unemployment and social instability . Many Ovambos from the region therefore initially preferred to migrate to Windhoek or other cities in the south of the country to settle in Oshakati. Since the turn of the millennium , Oshakati has been able to increasingly consolidate its economic leadership role in northern Namibia, mainly due to South African and Angolan investments in the region. Nevertheless, a large part of the inhabitants of Oshakati still live in corrugated iron settlements.
During the civil war in Angola , Oshakati was a very important base of the South African army , which had actively intervened in the war on the part of UNITA from here . This almost 30-year civil war in Angola had a lasting influence on the development of Oshakati: Although almost the entire Ovamboland was a restricted military area and thus largely excluded from orderly civil development, the presence of the military ensured strong growth in all related areas. In addition, during and after the civil war, Oshakati was a refuge for many war refugees from the region and Angola. All of this led to a very disorderly, but definitely stormy development at the expense of the historically grown structures.
Local politics
The following official final result was determined in the 2015 local elections .
| Political party | be right | Share of votes | Seats |
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| SWAPO | 4569 | 91.2% | 6th |
| DTA | 330 | 6.6% | 1 |
| RDP | 111 | 2.2% | 0 |
| All in all | 5010 | 100% | 7th |
City structure
Oshakati is divided into six districts :
- Evululuko
- Oshakati North
- Oshakati West
- Oshakati East
- Oshoopala
- Uupindi North
Sports
The football club Oshakati City plays in the second highest league in the country, the Northern Stream First Division .
Town twinning
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sons and daughters of the town
- Ali Nuumbembe (born 1978), boxer
- Sebastian Dehnhardt (* 1968), German director, author and producer
- Gazza (* 1977), popular Namibian Kwaito - Musicians
Web links
- Oshakati / Ondangwa: Four O Region. ( Memento from February 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Nord-Kampus Oshakati ( Memento from May 13th 2009 in the web archive archive.today ) of the University of Namibia
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Namibia 2011 Population and Housing Census Preliminary Results. Namibia Statistics Agency, April 2012, accessed May 9, 2012.
- ^ History Weather Underground, Oshakati, Namibia. Wunderground, accessed on September 1, 2010 (English).
- ^ Climate Ondangwa - Namibia. Climatedata.eu, accessed on September 1, 2010 (English).
- ↑ a b c I. Twedten, S. Nangulah: Social Relations of Poverty: A Case-Study from Owambo, Namibia, Chr. Michelsen Institute - Development Studies and Human Rights, Bergen, Norway. 1999. ( PDF file , March 7, 2012, English)
- ^ T. Kluge, S. Liehr, A. Lux, S. Niemann, K. Brunner: IWRM in northern Namibia - Cuvelai delta, Final report of a preliminary study. Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE), Frankfurt am Main 2006. ( PDF file , accessed on March 8, 2012, English)
- ↑ KFW: Namibia: Water Supply System Ogongo-Oshakati . at www.kfw-entwicklungsbank.de (English)
- ↑ P. Uugwanga, p Ipinge: Sharing research techniques in the new millennium: Drawing from the experience of the Oshakati bomb blast. In: Reform Forum: Journal for Educational Reform in Namibia. Volume 14, May 2001. ( PDF file ( Memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 8, 2012, English)
- ↑ Namrights wants compensation for Oshakati bomb victims. ( Memento from February 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: The Namibian. February 21, 2012, accessed March 8, 2012. (English)
- ↑ Official election results of the regional and local elections 2015, ECN, December 4, 2015 ( Memento of December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 150 kB)
- ^ Oshakati signs twinning agreement with Chinese city. The Namibian, January 5, 2015 , accessed January 5, 2015.
Coordinates: 17 ° 47 ' S , 15 ° 42' E