\n Published on 27\/11\/2025 – 12:41 GMT+1
\n \u2022Updated
\n 13:23\n <\/p>\n
A local politician in Namibia who shares his name with Nazi Germany’s notorious leader has retained his seat for the fifth time in a row, after reportedly winning the Wednesday local elections in his constituency.<\/p>\n
Adolf Hitler Uunona has represented Ompundja in the Oshana region since 2004 as a member of the South West Africa People’s Organisation, or SWAPO.<\/p>\n
While Namibia’s Electoral Commission has yet to release the official vote count, Uunona won by a large margin, according to multiple reports. <\/p>\n
The 59-year-old has been a popular figure in the small northern constituency of less than 5,000 residents despite his namesake\u2019s legacy, winning the election with 85% of the vote in 2020. <\/p>\n
As regional councilor, he has been lauded for his grassroots work and anti-apartheid efforts, domestic media reported.<\/p>\n
In an interview with German newspaper Bild in 2020 \u2014 when he won his fourth mandate \u2014 Uunona said he had \u201cnothing to do\u201d with Nazi ideology.<\/p>\n
He also rejected any notion of world domination. <\/p>\n
“It wasn’t until I was growing up that I realised: This man wanted to subjugate the whole world,” Uunona said. \u201cI have nothing to do with any of these things.”<\/p>\n
He explained that his father named him after the notorious Nazi leader responsible for the Holocaust. However, Uunona pointed out that \u201che probably did not understand\u201d what it meant.<\/p>\n
“As a child I saw it as a totally normal name,” Uunona insisted. \u201cIt does not mean I have Adolf Hitler’s character or resemble that of Adolf Hitler of Germany,\u201d he told Namibian press in a separate interview.<\/p>\n
He goes by the name Adolf Uunona in his daily life, but he maintains he has no plans to change it, as it is \u201ctoo late for that\u201d.<\/p>\n
The centre-left SWAPO party originated in the Namibian liberation movement. It campaigns on anti-colonial politics, including the rejection of white-minority governance. In recent years, the party has shifted towards the centre and market-oriented policies.<\/p>\n
Namibia was once a German colony and part of German South West Africa, and Germanic names like Adolf remain common.<\/p>\n
After World War I, it was under South African control until its independence in 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 27\/11\/2025 – 12:41 GMT+1 \u2022Updated 13:23 A local politician in Namibia who shares his name with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1935,1260,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-2591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-namibia","8":"tag-adolf-hitler","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-namibia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}