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.
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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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