Okahao


Okahao is a town in the Omusati Region of northern Namibia and the district capital of the Okahao electoral constituency. It is situated in the Ongandjera tribal area west of Oshakati on the main road MR123.
The area around Okahao is flat, arable land which is mainly used for subsistence farming. Okahao is the largest town in Ongandjera, the birthplace of Namibia's founding president Sam Nujoma.

Infrastructure

Okahao has an east/west, unpaved, undeveloped airstrip of length, a clinic, and two hospitals.
Okahao has two secondary schools namely
Shaanika Nashilongo SS and Niilo Taapopi SS, one combined school, one primary school, and one private school. There is also the Okahao community library, a Police station and a prison. Several ministries have representation in the town. The Ongozi Lodge caters for tourists.
As of November 2009, the mayor of Okahao was David Uuzombala Isai.

Politics

Okahao is governed by a town council that has seven seats.
Omusati Region, to which Okahao belongs, is a stronghold of Namibia's ruling SWAPO party. In the run up to the 2009 general election, campaigners for the Rally for Democracy and Progress were driven out of the town by school children. For the 2015 local authority election no opposition party nominated a candidate, and SWAPO won uncontested.