Katutura East is a constituency in the

Khomas Region Khomas is one of the fourteen regions of Namibia. Its name refers to the Khomas Highland, a high plateau landscape that dominates this administrative unit. Khomas is centered on the capital city Windhoek and provides for this reason superior trans ...

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. It consists of the extensions 1, 6, and 19 of the suburb

Katutura Katutura (Otjiherero for ''The place where people do not want to live'') is a township of Windhoek, Khomas Region, Namibia. Katutura was created in 1961 following the forced removal of Windhoek's black population from the Old Location, which af ...

, a township within

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that was founded by the then

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government of Namibia for black people in the 1950s. It had a population of 18,501 in 2011, up from 17,745 in 2001. , it has 15,878 registered voters.

Politics

The first councillor of Katutura East was Gabriel Ithete (

SWAPO The South West Africa People's Organisation (, SWAPO; af, Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volks Organisasie, SWAVO; german: Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation, SWAVO), officially known as the SWAPO Party of Namibia, is a political party and former ind ...

) who was succeeded by Elina Ndapuka (also SWAPO) in 2004. The 2015 regional elections were again won by SWAPO; Ruben Sheehama won the constituency with 2,912 votes. Ina Gouws of the

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(DTA) came distant second with 386 votes, followed by Telwin Dennis Owoseb of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP, 295 votes). The SWAPO candidate also won the 2020 regional election, albeit by a much smaller margin. Richard Gaoseb received 1,772 votes, followed by Michael Mulunga of the

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(IPC, an opposition party formed in August 2020) with 992 votes, Olsen Kahiri of the

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(LPM, also a new party, registered in 2018) with 594 votes, and

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s Mervin Claasen and Claudia Namises with 540 and 461 votes, respectively.

References

Constituencies of Khomas Region Windhoek States and territories established in 1992 1992 establishments in Namibia {{Namibia-gov-stub