Okahandja Landmarks
1892 - 1950s - 2022
The small town of Okahandja is one of the oldest-established settlements in Namibia and is the administrative centre of the Herero-speaking people, with a number of its formal leaders buried here. The official founding of Okahandja is deemed to be 1894, though oral traditions suggests that Herero-speaking peoples have been living in the vicinity since the end of the 18th century, coinciding with their migration south from the Kaokoland from around 1750.
The days of the ox wagon. Wecke & Voigts established their trading store in a building rented from Samuel Maharero
A yearly procession through the town to the Herero graves commemorates Herero dead during various wars against the Nama and the Germans. As a crossroads between the routes west to the coast and north to Etosha, Okahandja is a busy, bustling place with a railway station, shops, banks, petrol stations and two large outdoor craft markets.
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| 1950s: In the hey day of steam trains: the stately building of Messrs Wecke & Voigts is behind railway station |
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| Okahandja railway station at present |
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