Tobias Hainyeko constituency

{{About|the electoral constituency|the PLAN commander|Tobias Hainyeko}}

{{short description|Electoral constituency in the Khomas region of central Namibia}}

Image:Wahlkreis Tobias Hainyeko (2014).svg in the Khomas Region (yellow)]]

{{Contains special characters|Khoekhoe}}

Tobias Hainyeko constituency (informally also Eastern Hakahana, after the area it covers) is an electoral constituency in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. It had a population of 45,912 in 2011, up from 34,348 in 2001.{{cite web|url=https://cms2.my.na/assets/documents/p19dptss1ri5r1f2kt6i5931i31g.pdf |title=Khomas 2011 Census Regional Profile |accessdate=10 April 2020 |website=Statistics Namibia| df=dmy}} {{As of|2020}} it had 36,530 registered voters.{{Cite web | title=Regional Council 2020 Election Results | publisher=Electoral Commission of Namibia | date=18 January 2021 | series=Interactive map | url=http://elections.na | accessdate=22 June 2021}}

The constituency was created in 2003 at the recommendation of the Third Delimitation Commission which suggested that the constituency of Hakahana be split.{{cite book

|title=Focus on: Khomas Region

|chapter=Khomas Region, a constitutional, political and geographical hybrid

|last=Matundu-Tjiparuro

|first=Mae

|publisher=supplement to New Era

|page=3

|date=28 February 2011}} Since then, the suburb of Hakahana falls into two different constituencies.{{Cite news | title=Re-division of certain regions into constituencies: Regional Councils Act, 1992 | newspaper=Government Gazette of the Republic of Namibia | issue=2942 | pages=20–21 | publisher=Government of Namibia | date=28 March 2003 | url=http://www.lac.org.na/laws/2003/2942.pdf | format=pdf}} The constituency is named after the guerrilla war hero Tobias Hainyeko. The western part of Hakahana falls under Moses ǁGaroëb constituency, after politician Moses ǁGaroëb.{{cite news

|title=Constituency named after John Pandeni

|last=Maletzky

|first=Christof

|newspaper=The Namibian

|date=27 August 2008

|url=https://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?page=archive-read&id=41805}}