Omuntele Constituency
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Omuntele Constituency is an electoral constituency in the Oshikoto Region on the northern part of Namibia. It had 21,884 inhabitants in 2004[1] and 9,854 registered voters in 2020[update].[2] The district capital is the settlement of Omuntele.
The constituency is situated in the northwest part of Oshikoto about 60 km southeast of Ondangwa. The constituency is currently led by Sakeus 'Sacky' Nangula, councillor for SWAPO. It is dominated by Oshiwambo speaking people and a small number San people. People in the area survive in cultivating crops. Mahangu is the principal crop in the area.[citation needed]
The area was established[clarification needed] by Silvanus Nyambali Nehale, son of Ondonga Chief Nehale Mpingana. During the Namibian War of Independence many people from this area went into exile to Angola and took up arms there. However, between 1976 and 1980 combatants of the People's Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) lived at Omuntele as civilians as part of a covert reconnaissance operation. There were a number of battles in and around Omuntele like the one at Oshalongo in which Commander Marx Nekongo was seriously injured. Nekongo later became councillor of Onayena Constituency.[3]
