Ompundja Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Oshana Region of Namibia. It had 4,423 inhabitants in 2004 and 2,520 registered voters . Its constituency office is situated in Enguwantale.

Geography

The constituency covers an area of . It is part of the

Cuvelai Basin The Cuvelai-Etosha Basin is a transboundary wetland area shared by Angola and Namibia extending over 450 kilometres from north to south. Covering almost 160,000 km2, the widest point of the basin is along the Angola-Namibia border from the Ku ...

and dominated by flood plains which become swamps during the raining season.

Economy and infrastructure

The district road D3607 is the access road to Ompundja constituency. There are no other proclaimed roads in the constituency; Transport is done on tracks that frequently become impassable during the raining season. The main economic activity is

subsistence agriculture Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow food crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements, with little or no su ...

. Ambassador, politician and businessperson Monica Nashandi was born here.State House's Nashandi resigns
New Era, 16 October 2009

Politics

Ompundja constituency is traditionally a stronghold of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) party. Constituency councillor is SWAPO politician Adolf Uunona, who has been serving in this role since 2004. Uunona rose to international attention in 2020 when news media picked up that his middle name is Hitler. Uunona stated in response that "my father gave me this name Adolf Hitler, but it does not mean I have Adolf Hitler's character". In the 2015 Namibian regional elections, Uunona won uncontested and remained councillor after no opposition party nominated a candidate. Uunona was again reelected in the 2020 Namibian regional elections, winning with 1,196 votes over Abner Mumbala of the Independent Patriots for Change (IPC), an opposition party formed in August 2020, with 213 votes.

References

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