Okongo
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| Country | File:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia |
| Region | Ohangwena Region |
| Constituency | Okongo Constituency |
| Settled | 1900s |
| Declared settlement area | 1999 |
| Proclaimed village | 2015 |
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| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
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| Number plate | KO |
| Climate | BSh |
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Okongo is a village in the Ohangwena Region of northern Namibia. It had a population of 3,564 people in 2023. It is the district capital of Okongo Constituency.
History
Okongo was first settled by the San people in the 1900s, who, as a hunter-gatherer community, found the local abundance of wildlife and fruit attractive in the village. The name Okongo derives from the Oshiwambo word meaning: a place or a forest for hunting.[citation needed]
The San were eventually displaced in Okongo by the immigration of Bantu people.[citation needed] Today the commonly spoken language in the area is Oshiwambo and Christianity is the predominant religion.[citation needed]
Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, the current[update] president of Namibia, hails from Okongo.[2]
Geography
Okongo is situated about 120 kilometres (75 mi) east of Eenhana on the tarred road to Nkurenkuru.[3]
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| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 2011 | 2,236 | — |
| 2023 | 3,564 | +3.96% |
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Economy and infrastructure
Okongo has basic amenities: electricity, water and sanitation, a post office, basic supermarkets, and clothing outlets, as well as banking facilities. Okongo District Hospital, a 62-bed public hospital that serves the surrounding settlements, is situated in the village.[4] Despite the water in the villages, it was unable to provide free water to the residents during Covid 19.[5]
There are two pre-primary schools, one primary school (Okongo Primary School), a combined school (Elia Weyulu Combined School) and a secondary school (Oshela Senior Secondary School). There is a NaTIS office, registering cars, drivers, and licenses, which was initiated in 2020.[6] Okongo's number plate is KO.[7]
There is also the Okongo Community Library, which offers educational resources, internet access and research facilities to community members.[8]
The village is accessible via a tarred road. There is also a landing strip for small aircraft.
Politics
Okongo was declared a settlement area in 1999. In 2015 its status was upgraded to a village.[9] Since then, it is governed by a village council that has five seats.[10]
The 2015 local authority election was won by SWAPO which gained 881 votes and all five seats. The Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) and the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) also ran and gained 60 and 29 votes, respectively.[11] SWAPO also won the 2020 local authority election. It obtained 521 votes and gained four seats. The Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, obtained 208 votes and the remaining seat.[12]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ndeyanale, Eliaser (8 December 2024). "Nandi-Ndaitwah's home village Okongo celebrates Namibia's first woman president". The Namibian. Retrieved 2026-03-03.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Okongo District Hospital • Hospitals - Public • Okongo, Okongo".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Okongo Village Council finding it difficult to provide free water to its residents". nbcnews.na. NBC. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Roads Authority opens Natis office at Okongo". www.nbc.na. NBC. Archived from the original on 8 July 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hamalwa, Festus (28 January 2025). "Five towns get green light to register vehicles". New Era.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hamalwa, Festus (28 January 2025). "Okongo library opens doors". New Era.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Establishment of certain area as local authority area and declaration thereof as Divundu Village: Local Authorities Act, 1992" (pdf). Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia. No. 5721. Government of Namibia. 1 April 2015. p. 2.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Know Your Local Authority". Election Watch. No. 3. Institute for Public Policy Research. 2015. p. 4.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Local elections results". Electoral Commission of Namibia. 28 November 2015. p. 5. Archived from the original on 10 December 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2020 Local Authority Elections Results and Allocation of Seats" (PDF). Electoral Commission of Namibia. 29 November 2020. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
