Ovamboland People's Organization
Ovamboland People's Organization | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | OPO |
| President | Sam Nujoma (1959 - 1960) |
| Chairperson | Lucas Haleinge Nepela |
| Founder | Sam Nujoma Jacob Kuhangua |
| Founded | 19 April 1959, Windhoek |
The Ovamboland People's Organization is a defunct nationalist organization that existed between 1959 and 1960 in the former South West Africa. The aim of the organization was to end the South African colonial administration, and the placing of South West Africa under the UN Trusteeship system.[1] Andimba Toivo ya Toivo had founded its predecessor the Ovamboland People's Congress (OPC) in 1957 in Cape Town, South Africa. OPC aim was to fight the exploitative labour contract system and policies of the South West Africa Native Labour Association (SWANLA). Two years later, in 1959, Sam Nujoma and Jacob Kuhangua established the Ovamboland People's Organization at the Old Location in Windhoek. Nujoma was elected President and Jacob Kuhangua as Secretary General. A year later, the organization sought a pan-ethnic independence for the country and formed into the South West Africa People's Organization.[2]
On December 10, 1959, police shot and killed 11 protesters in Windhoek's Old Location,[3] forcing OPO leaders to go into exile and create the South West Africa People's Organization.[4]
References
- ^ Xoagub, Francis (3 July 2012). "Liberation struggle pioneer honoured". New Era.
- ^ Dictionary of African historical biography "Sam Nujoma", Page 280, 1989
- ^ "History of Old Location and Katutura". Namibweb. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
- ^ Peter N. Stearns and William Leonard Langer. The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged, 2001. Page 1070.
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