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Omitara | |
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  Omitara Location in Namibia | |
| Coordinates: 22°16′S 18°1′E / 22.267°S 18.017°E | |
| Country |  Namibia |
| Region | Omaheke Region |
| Constituency | Okorukambe Constituency |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (South African Standard Time) |
| Climate | BSh |
Omitara is a settlement in the Okorukambe electoral constituency in the Omaheke Region of Namibia. Together with the adjacent village of Otjivero — the two places are often referred to as one — it had a population of approximately 1,200 as of October 2008. Otjivero and Omitara railway station are two contiguous TransNamib railway stops en route from Windhoek to Gobabis.
History
[edit]Upon Independence of Namibia Omitara was a village, governed by a seven-seat village council. The 1992 Namibian local election was contested only by SWAPO, and all seven of its candidates were duly elected.[1] The village status of Omitara was revoked before the 1998 local authority elections, so that it came under the governance of the Omaheke Regional Council.[2]
Economy and Infrastructure
[edit]Basic Income Grant project
[edit]In 2008 and 2009, Omitara and Otjivero were the site of a basic income grant test project.[3] Every person under the retirement age of 60 was given 100 Namibian dollars (Namibian pensioners get an independent allowance of 550N$ per month). The follow-up study, published in October 2008, reported that poverty-related crime, malnutrition rates among children and school drop outs had decreased since the inception of the project. The coalition advocating for a BIG in Namibia was led by labour and church organisations,[4][5] hoping for a nationwide implementation of this grant to alleviate the worst effects of poverty in the country. The government of Namibia has however not supported this initiative.[6]
After the last payment was scheduled for December 2009, a bridging allowance of 80 N$ per month was introduced in order not to "let residents slide back into the dehumanising levels of poverty that they experienced before".[7] This bridging allowance was paid until the end of 2011 when the BIG coalition ran out of money.[6] Payments resumed again in July 2014 with support from the Waldensian Church in Italy.[8]
Otjovero Dam
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West of Otjivero and Omitara the Otjivero Dams are situated. They comprise a main dam and a silt dam and store the water of the White Nossob River.[9]
See also
[edit]- Basic income around the world
- Mincome basic income project in Manitoba, Canada
References
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ↑ "Electoral Act. 1992: Notification of result of general election for local authority councils" (pdf). Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia. No. 547. Government of Namibia. 7 December 1992. p. 27.
- ↑ "Electoral Act, 1992: Notification of results of general election for local authority councils" (pdf). Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia. No. 1805. Government of Namibia. 5 March 1998. pp. 1–25.
- ↑ Dialika Krahe. "How a Basic Income Program Saved a Namibian Village". Der Spiegel. Archived from the original on 16 December 2012.
- ↑ Denver Isaacs (3 October 2008). "BIG a big success at Omitara". The Namibian. Archived from the original on 5 October 2008.
- ↑ A Basic Income Program in Otjivero
- 1 2 "BIG resources depleted". Namibia Economist. 9 March 2012. Archived from the original on 20 November 2012.
- ↑ Denver Kisting (9 July 2010). "Embezzlement hit NBC hard: Biwa". The Namibian. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011.
- ↑ Namibia: BIG Resumes At Otjivero
- ↑ "Otjivero Dam". namibweb.com. Retrieved 28 October 2020.
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