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Okahao Baobab
Other Site Details
Classification  | A.04.1. Botany Trees
Proclamation No  | 155/2011
Place  | Okahao, erf 206
Region  | Omusati
Instangible Aspects  | Scripts and drawings by the SA colonial army are still visible today all over the tree.
Refences  | Government Gazette 4787, No. 155, 2011
Legal Status  | National Heritage Act, No 27 of 2004, proclaimed 01 September 2011
     

Brief History

During the then South African colonial era this place was used as a military base. It was under this tree that a lot of SWAPO supporters and sympathizers were tortured and killed after they were captured by KOEFOET. Local people were forced to speak out on the whereabouts of their brothers and sisters who joined SWAPO and vanished from the public eye.

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