Overview
- Namibia votes on November 26, with early indications from the electoral commission suggesting Uunona will keep his Ompundja seat.
- The 59-year-old SWAPO councillor was first elected in 2004 and is seeking a fifth term on the regional council.
- He won a landslide in 2020 with 85% of the vote, taking 1,196 ballots to his rival’s 213 in the Ompundja constituency.
- Uunona says his father gave him the name without understanding its history, and he has repeatedly disavowed Nazi ideology.
- Sustained global attention to his name highlights Namibia’s German colonial legacy from 1884 to 1915, including mass killings of Herero and Nama people widely described as genocide.