Tsjaka

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Primary school Mphe Thuto from a bird's eye view (2017)

Tsjaka , also known as Ben-Hur , is a settlement in the Omaheke region in Namibia , which is about 50 kilometers south of Gobabis , the capital of the region.

Tsjaka is exactly at the intersection of the two former farms Tsjaka and Ben-Hur. Together with the surrounding small settlements, Tsjaka has about 3000 inhabitants, most of whom belong to the Tswana group and various San groups. Setswana and Khoekhoegowab as well as various San languages are mainly spoken in the settlement .

Every year a well-known horse race takes place in the village.

history

In 1981, a farmer association Tsjaka after the Chief of the Namibian Tswana , Constance Kgosiemang bought ten adjacent farms with government funds and this to a resettlement area (resettlement site) for the setswanasprachige population of the region, with the name Ben-Hur Rural Development Center , formed .

Infrastructure

The small settlement in the Kalahari can only be reached from the main road C22 via a gravel road. Tsjaka has a primary school, the Mphe Thuto Primary School , the Ben-Hur Rural Development Center run by the Ngoma Consulting Company, a local rural development NGO , and the Kalahari constituency office. The population lives in corrugated iron huts or in massive houses. The most important economic factor is subsistence farming.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Omaheke Census Regional Profile. (PDF) Namibia Statistics Agency, 2011, accessed January 1, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Mphe Thuto Primary School ( Memento from December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on mphethuto.de, accessed on June 7, 2014.
  3. ^ Manfred O. Hinz, Alex Gairiseb: Customary Law Acertained . tape 2 . UNAM Press, Windhoek 2013, p. 137 .
  4. ↑ Ute Diekmann et al .: Scraping the pott. (PDF) Legal Assistance Center, 2013, accessed on January 1, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Gertrud Boden :! Qamtee | aa || Xanya - The Book of Traditions ': Histories, Texts and Illustrations from the! Xoon and' N | ohan People of Namibia. Ed .: Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel 2007.
  6. ↑ a b Marc Witte: Ecological conditions of smallholder agriculture in semi-arid regions of Namibia and the case study Omaheke . ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Diploma thesis, 1997; Retrieved January 25, 2017
  7. ^ NHRA battles for funds . The Villager, April 22, 2016.
  8. ↑ Welcome to BEN-HUR Rural Development Center . Website of the Ben-Hur Rural Development Center; Retrieved June 7, 2014.
  9. ↑ a b Kalahari Constituency. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 1, 2016 .

Coordinates: 22 ° 46 ′  S , 19 ° 12 ′  E