منطقة أوشيكوتو

Coordinates: 18°31′S 17°06′E / 18.517°S 17.100°E / -18.517; 17.100
Oshikoto Region
Region
Location of the Oshikoto Region in Namibia
Location of the Oshikoto Region in Namibia
الإحداثيات: 18°31′S 17°06′E / 18.517°S 17.100°E / -18.517; 17.100
CountryNamibia
CapitalTsumeb (-2008), Omuthiya (2008-present)
الحكومة
 • GovernorSacky Kathindi[1]
المساحة
[2]
 • الإجمالي38٬685 كم² (14٬936 ميل²)
التعداد
 (2023 census)[3][4]
 • الإجمالي257٬302
 • الكثافة6٫7/km2 (17/sq mi)
منطقة التوقيتUTC+2 (CAT)
HDI (2017)0.636[5]
medium · 7th
الموقع الإلكترونيoshikotorc.gov.na

Oshikoto is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia, named after Lake Otjikoto. Its capital is Omuthiya. Further major settlements in the region are Tsumeb, Otjikoto's capital until 2008, and Oniipa. اعتبارا من 2020, Oshikoto had 112,170 registered voters.[6]

Geography

Oshikoto Region is named after Lake Otjikoto[7] near its former capital Tsumeb.

Oshikoto is one of only three Namibian regions without either a shoreline or a foreign border. It borders the following regions:

Demographics

The region's population has grown significantly over recent years, partly as a result of resettling / redistribution within the Oshiwambo-speaking area. Apart from Tsumeb and Oniipa, people have settled in a corridor along the trunk road, sometimes forming quite dense concentrations.

Economy and infrastructure

The northern part of the region practices crop agriculture, whereas the main economic activities in the southern part are cattle rearing and mining. The two areas have important cultural and historical links in that the Ndonga people have extracted copper at Tsumeb since the earliest times in order to make rings and tools.

Pearl millet (Mahangu) is the principal crop in the north, while cattle are reared in the Mangetti and the Tsumeb district. Although the Tsumeb mine has only a limited life span, it provides a boost for the communal areas of the region together with the associated support industries and services.

Communication networks and infrastructure are well developed in the area: a paved trunk road runs across the region, linking it to both the south and the north of the country. The national microwave network terminates at Tsumeb, but telecommunications are now carried across the region and as far as Oshakati by means of a newly laid optical fiber cable.

According to the 2012 Namibia Labour Force Survey, unemployment in the Oshikoto Region is 26.4%.[8] اعتبارا من 2013 Oshikoto had 200 schools with a total of 60,439 pupils.[9]

Politics

Oshikoto constituencies (2014)

Constituencies

Oshikoto comprises eleven constituencies:

Regional elections

Electorally, Oshikoto is consistently dominated by the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). In the 2004 regional election for the National Assembly of Namibia, SWAPO won all constituencies, and mostly by a landslide. In Eengodi no opposition party even nominated a candidate.[12]

The 2015 local and regional elections saw SWAPO obtain 98.8% of the votes cast (2010: 95.6%)[6] and win nine of the eleven constituencies uncontested .[13] The remaining two constituencies were also won by SWAPO with majorities well over 80%.[14]

Although SWAPO's support dropped to 73.2% of the total votes in the 2020 regional election it again won in all constituencies. Most of the non-SWAPO votes went to the upstart Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020.[15]

Governors

Demographics

As of 2023, Oshikoto is home to 257,302 inhabitants. In the general population, women outnumber men, with 98 males per 100 females. The population is majority rural, with only 18.3% living in urban settlements. The population density is 6.7 people per km2. 6% of residents are not Namibian citizens. There are 60,643 private households, averaging 4.1 members. The population is growing at an annual rate of 2.9%, with a fertility rate of 4.4 children per woman. 14.7% is under 5, 24.8% 5-14, 31.9% 15-34, 20.3% 35-59, and 8.3% over 60.[19]

Marriage status

27.8% of the adult population has been married, either with certificate (18.6%), traditionally (2.9%), in a consensual union (2.2%), divorced (0.9%), or widowed (2.9%). The population generally marries older, with only 0.8% of the current youth population married before age 18.[19]

Education and employment

The literacy rate has decreased from 2011 to 85.2%. 22.2% percent of pre-primary youth attend Early Childhood Development (ECD) programs. The maximum level of educational attainment is mostly primary (46.2%), with only 20.8% pursuing secondary education and 8.5% pursuing tertiary education. 12.3% has no educational attainment. 33.3% of inhabitants earn a wage or salary as their primary source of income, 18.3% receive an old-age pension, 23.6% rely on farming, and 8.3% are involved in non-farming business. [19]

References

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  2. ^ "Namibia's Population by Region". Election Watch. Institute for Public Policy Research (1): 3. 2013.
  3. ^ "Oshikoto 2011 Census Regional Profile" (PDF). Statistics Namibia. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  4. ^ "2023 Population & Housing Census Preliminary Report" (PDF). Statistics Namibia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-03-24. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
  5. ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org (in الإنجليزية). Retrieved 13 سبتمبر 2018.
  6. ^ أ ب "Regional Council 2020 Election Results". Interactive map. Electoral Commission of Namibia. 18 يناير 2021. Retrieved 17 فبراير 2022.
  7. ^ Heita, Desie (13 نوفمبر 2015). "Oshikoto scores big in development budget". New Era. Archived from the original on 4 مارس 2016. Retrieved 15 نوفمبر 2015.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  8. ^ Duddy, Jo Maré (11 أبريل 2013). "Unemployment rate still alarmingly high". The Namibian. Archived from the original on 14 أبريل 2013.
  9. ^ Miyanicwe, Clemans; Kahiurika, Ndanki (27 نوفمبر 2013). "School counsellors overstretched". The Namibian. allafrica.com. p. 1.
  10. ^ "Creation of new regions and division and re-division of certain regions into constituencies: Regional Councils Act, 1992" (pdf). Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia. No. 5261. Government of Namibia. 9 أغسطس 2013. pp. 1–39. Archived from the original on 27 أبريل 2021. Retrieved 12 سبتمبر 2023.
  11. ^ أ ب "Amendment of Proclamation No. 25 of 1 September 1992, as amended by Proclamation No. 16 of 31 August 1998" (pdf). Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia. No. 2233. Government of Namibia. 22 نوفمبر 1999. p. 2.
  12. ^ "Electoral Act, 1992: Notification of Result of General Election for Regional Councils" (pdf). Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia. No. 3366. Government of Namibia. 3 يناير 2005. p. 9.
  13. ^ Kangootui, Nomhle (23 أكتوبر 2015). "Swapo gets ǃNamiǂNûs uncontested". The Namibian. Archived from the original on 24 أكتوبر 2015.
  14. ^ "Regional Council Election Results 2015". Electoral Commission of Namibia. 3 ديسمبر 2015. p. 19. Archived from the original on 8 ديسمبر 2015.
  15. ^ "Publication of results and particulars in respect of general elections for Regional Councils: Electoral Act, 2014" (pdf). Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia. No. 7654. Government of Namibia. 8 أكتوبر 2021. pp. 19–20.
  16. ^ Nawatiseb, Engel (27 يناير 2014). "Oshikoto governor creates awareness". New Era. Archived from the original on 16 أغسطس 2016.
  17. ^ "President announces governors". The Namibian. 10 أبريل 2015. Archived from the original on 14 أبريل 2015. Retrieved 14 أبريل 2015.
  18. ^ Nandi-Ndaitwah, Netumbo (28 مارس 2025). "Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah appointments of regional governors in the 8th administration". The Namibian (in الإنجليزية).
  19. ^ أ ب ت "2023 Population and Housing Census Main Report" (PDF). Namibia Statistics Agency. 2023. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 نوفمبر 2024. Retrieved 13 فبراير 2026.

External links

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Four-O region.

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