Politics
Since 2001, Laura McLeod of SWAPO has been the governor of Omaheke Region. The region comprises seven constituencies: Aminuis, Epukiro, Kalahari, Gobabis, Otjinene, Otjombinde and Steinhausen. Upon independence of Namibia, Hereroland East was absorbed into the region.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)
“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)